SftpDrive for free!
July 12thRight now we’re offering a promotion where you’ll get a completely free license of SftpDrive when you sign up for a BlueHost account - referred through us.
It’s a pretty fantastic deal, $6.95 a month gets you 300GB of storage with 3TB of transfer a month, all mounted quite nicely as a drive letter in Windows. Oh, and there are a whole bunch of other features. Although we’re currently sitting on a lovely Joyent Accelerator [which is a dream], we used BlueHost for a couple years while starting up Magnetk. They served us quite well. As a warning, I think they still require you to email/fax a copy of a photo ID for ssh access, which I admit, is annoying.
So, to review. For $6.95 a month you get a free copy of SftpDrive and a 300gig drive out in the cloud to do whatever you want with. We’re going to set up similar deals with other hosting companies that offer affiliate/referral programs. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
Click here to sign up here.
Once you’re signed up with BlueHost, just email us with the info and we’ll process the coupon.
December 29th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Hi sftpDrive,
I just contacted Bluehost and they told me that they don’t recommend their hosting service to work with sftpDrive. So my question is… does this software allow me to connect to a hosting site such as Bluehost to create network drives on Windows? Thanks in advance!
Joel
January 10th, 2008 at 8:38 am
yepp, that’s what I was told by bluehost, too.
so, does sftpdrive work or not?
marc
January 10th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Marc -
It works great! We use it daily :) I’m gonna contact them to see why they are saying this rubbish.
-Jeff
January 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Can you tell us how long one needs to keep the bluehost for, and whether the sftpdrive license expires if one eventually cancels his bluehost account? Thanks.
March 5th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Would be nice to have a reply to the previous question (jhansen’s).
Also, would this be valid for HostMoster too? It’s an exact replica of BlueHost, with the same owner. The difference is it has fewer accounts so maybe the service will be better.
Thank you.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
The offer is still valid, and once you create the BlueHost account the license is yours. I think you need to sign up for a year though. It’s not valid for hostmonster right now.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Hello from Spain! My English is not good but is seem like a very nice web site, thanks
March 30th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I have another question, if I may.
It seems that BlueHost does not encrypt my data once it is saved there. Is that advisable, or even acceptable, for your own files? How do you deal with that?
Thank you.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Hi Pj,
make sure that you don’t upload your stuff to any /public_html/ dir. Make also sure that you chmod rights are set in such a way that only you can read!
Is bluehost also fast when using it from Europe? Can anyone tell me what there upload/download speed is from bluehost?
July 19th, 2008 at 12:52 am
I just had my Bluehost account deactivated by Bluehost because I used it as “a 300gig drive out in the cloud to do whatever you want with.”
Seems their terms of service say you can only use it for webhosting, not for storage.
So it seems that your advertising them as simply a diskspace provider for use with sftp is ill-advised to put it mildly.