11 tricks to store all your files in the cloud

Since the emergence of the Internet and the development of digital ecosystems, we have encountered the same problem: space.No matter what hard disk we have mounted, at some point we will have to throw files in the trash bin recycling .That or buy more and more external space.Any solution?

Of course there is: storage in the cloud.There are dozens of websites that provide very well organized space, even with online players.This is, if you upload a photo, you can see it or even edit it from the online folder.It is an audio file, listen to it as if it were hosted on your player.Not bad, right?

Forget the old fashion of accumulating by accumulating.If you want to have your own HD in the cloud, here are some tips.

DIVERSIFIES: THE VIRTUAL EMPORIO

Nobody has told us that we cannot have all the virtual addresses we want.There is no written rule, so we can always use different services.

In Dropbox you start with 2GB and you can upload up to 20.For each user account and without paying a cent.But, what is 20GB when your personal video file can add a zero to that figure? We can pay 9.99 euros per month to have 1TB of space in the main accommodation services...or we can diversify.

The business alternatives are ideal to have our discs centralized but we can always create folders, for example: photos in Dropbox, songs in OneDrive-5GB free per account and 50GB for just two euros a month-, another 5GB in HiDrive, and so until reaching the necessary space.For services it will not be, and some like Cubby have up to 25GB through referral programs in facilities on our equipment.

Share, it doesn't cost

Dropbox offers the opportunity to share folders -from the option «Create shared folder» and then providing the access code to all interested parties.

If you create one that you share with your work group, consume your space.But if each of the people you share happens to do the same, in the end you will have a huge hard disk created among all .

CLEANING ON GOOGLE DRIVE

Google Drive offers 15 GB for free to any customer.Simply create the account and they will be yours.But these 15GB are divided between the virtual hard disk space in question, the Google Photos section-than before It was linked to Picasa-and the Gmail platform itself.

It is easy to run out of space when you start to accumulate emails, to send files among friends thinking that you will have an infinite well to dump your photos and documents, but you will not have it.

Therefore, it is recommended that from time to time you use the Gmail search engine.One of its brightest features is putting the "size" command in the search bar, followed by the size we want to narrow down.size: 15MB », all together, we will see all emails that have attached or inserted files equal to or greater than 15MB. A way to clean your tray in just a couple of minutes .

UPLOAD ONLY WHAT IS COMPATIBLE

Almost any multimedia file is compatible with professional storage services.It is clear that OneDrive is fully compatible with the Microsoft Office suite, this includes from Word to presentations.But text files are the ones that occupy the least and I shouldn't worry either.

Jumpshare, on the other hand, starts with 2GB and we can upload up to 18 with a referral program very similar to that of Dropbox.This platform is especially suitable for playing video files and has an application of Easy enough desktop to synchronize data with a simple drag&drop (drag and drop); of the rest is commission the application.

AND THE PHOTOS?

You can now erase all the photos in your mobile folders, all those duplicates on different discs, on the PC or laptop.The social networks themselves are magnificent containers because they do not impose space restrictions on you.On Facebook you can decide that you share and what not, group them by folders or events, etc.

But we could still use Flickr, the web to store, sort, sell and share photos , which offers new customers up to 1TB of space for free.

Together with 500px, this service allows, in addition to uploading, editing the photos and downloading them in original size, without applying compression.And, if your photos are so good that you need to teach them, Flickr itself usually organizes contests for the most professional With 1TB of photos it is almost certain that you will never lack space.

forget about downloading movies

Although platforms like Netflix increasingly offer more options to watch their series and movies online, such as Spotify, there are tools to consume movies without downloading any files, such as PopCorn Time or Plex.

And, if you're watching anime, CrunchyRoll offers tons of free content in exchange for seeing a little advertising and the odd interruption.In return you can forget about storing and storing unnumbered episodes.

Turn to professionals

Another alternative is based on migration and remote backup.Professional companies such as AHsay are perfect to make a backup and forget about the computer files.Most are paid, by offering a guarantee that, if you you lose some file, have recovery systems .

The ratio, in any case, is at $ 0.024 per gigabyte per month.There are quite a few alternatives for the same price and with protected backups: Unitrends is one of the most prestigious.

THE EAST CLOUD

There is a cloud that surpasses all, which plays on a gigantic scale.MEGA gives 50GB.4Shared gives 100GB.Services like RSAPlay offer nothing more and nothing less than 250GB, with the option to watch streaming video-accept the formats tiff image, png, pdf or jpg and those of video mpg, mp4 or avi-and with an enormous security with RSA encryption of 2048-bit .Moreover, for another 9 dollars we have infinite storage.

But the real achievement comes with 360, the Chinese service that offers from 2TB to 40.It works by synchronizing the mobile phone, from application and using a token, but we are talking about a gigantic amount of space and with the guarantee that, according to the company itself, it will go further in the future.

Setting up our own server

Western Digital usually offers its popular MyCloud service with which to synchronize with the different devices.Obviously, we need the hardware, the physical hard disk.They are multimedia disks that connect to our router through the network cable and, once they have access, link all files to a server.

This disk will have its own assigned IP and the only processes to carry out will be to have a folder called Cloud-where we will locate the files that we want to upload.Unlike Google Drive, Dropbox or others, this system offers much greater storage without paying monthly rentals.

Other alternatives would be in Drobo, the prestigious NAS systems company or the Seagate Personal Cloud.

Taking advantage of gifts...

Finally, it should be noted that we can create our own server with third-party services.Sometimes we buy a mobile phone and give us a lot of space- like 25 and up to 100GB that Orange gives for its different rates -You have to take advantage of it.

...And special promotions

Yes, we already know that it is a bit tiring to associate products and serial numbers to services, but everything is for having some extra gigabytes.OneDive learned the tricks of Dropbox well and, for two years, offers 3GB of storage to any user who automatically uploads their photos from a mobile device.What you have to do is download the client app from Android or iOS and activate the "camera backup" option.

Some promotions are much more juicy, such as the offer of 100GB free during the first year with the purchase of any new Windows 10 laptop .And, if you reside in the US, you can also take advantage of the program Bing Rewards, being able to expand your space with simple recommendations and service tests-like the extra 3GB that Google gives on Drive when we do a safety test-.