I recently moved all my hosting from my own servers to hosting providers. I want to send my weekly automated backups offsite via ftp to some form of cloud storage. Any suggestions of services that I might look at? Please note, I really want to use ftp to export the backup files.

I hate that name cloud. It tried to make us think that somehow it is more magical than just a ftp server. Amazon cloud, skydrive whooo.

Why not send your logs to local system? Any ftp server that can be located on the planet could be used. ftp is common, easy, not too secure but can be made more secure.

You have to be sure the host can allow a ftp client or ssh or some vpn.

Thanks for replying. There's a couple of reasons why downloading the backups to a local server won't do. First, our office is on a DSL connection with DHCP, so there's no way for the outside world to connect into a local computer. Secondly, they're backups so I'd prefer to keep them on a server or service that has large, fast network connections so I can return them back to the original system if I need them for a restore.

I am student of B.tech. I have keen desire to know about the networking. I want to know about the cloud storage. But I didn’t get how to use the own ftp. This is very critical problem with me. Please give me right direction and right and suitable solution. I have posted same so many forums. I hope I’ll get the solution very soon. But I have keen hope from this forum. So please response as soon as possible for you.

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@recneps_divad

You could download even on a dynamic ip.

There are plenty of storage solutions on the web. Some range from simple ftp to more complex that require tunnels from simple to complex.

More depends on how secure and how dependable and how much you want to spend.

@Cherity

To explain how one can use a local system as ftp server consider this. If you can talk to or connect to the internet then you understand that there is a two way connection between your computer and some other. It then makes it simple to say install a local ftp server then access it by get and put commands or a ftp gui command.

@jefro, I really appreciate your effort. However, I'm not wanting to download from my remote server to a local one. Rather, I want the remote server to push outward a backup container file to my ftp server. That's why I can't send the file out to my local system.

You said you knew some ftp vendors. Care to list some? I'm drawing blanks here.

Almost every hosting site offers storage, well for that matter hosting is just storage so every hosting site does offer storage. You can choose based on cost and ease of use and server OS and such. Some sites are just for ftp or offsite storage.

Search terms.

Offsite storage

ftp storage

online storage

change storage to hosting

And, yes, cloud storage or hosting.

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Thanks for helping. I've found a vendor that I'm going to contact tomorrow. I think I've found what I needed now.