Bingo! offers WebDAV storage with perks

The online storage biz sure is heating up, what with Xdrive and Files-Upload being two of the most recent and spacious notables. Now Joyent, providers of other online services like TextDrive and Connector (web-based apps for small business), is entering the space with Bingo!, a WebDAV storage solution with some handy perks. For starters, let's get the storage space and price points out of the way:

• 100 gigabytes of storage (10 gigabytes of bandwidth) for $199 a year
• 50 gigabytes of storage (5 gigabytes of bandwidth) for $99 a year
• 25 gigabytes of storage (2.5 gigabytes of bandwidth) for $49 a year

Powered by "Sun's amazing X4500 platform," customers receive one user account with a whole lotta goodies, such as a public folder for hosting things like images and podcasts, the ability to use your own domain or simply mycompany.bingodisk.com, as well as a complementary 5-user subscription to Connector.

All things considered, I prefer the ease and cross-platform friendliness of WebDAV from folks like Bingo! and DreamHost, as opposed to the constrictive and proprietary web UI many of these online storage newcomers employ (on a side note to developers and marketers: can you please stop using exclamation points (!) in your product names?). Of course, it is sometimes hard to beat 'free,' but with the nice array of extra options for the serious storage user that make the icing on the cake taste that much sweeter, Bingo! has a lot going for it.

Tags: bingo, bingo!, commercial, online, space, storage, webdav, xdrive