DigiBoxx India - $39/year for 2 TB cloud storage
This service has been launched recently, likely not a summerhost, as NITI Ayog(https://niti.gov.in/) had closely worked with the company throughout its development and were present during the launch. and from some other articles that I read, it wants to see itself as a competitor to Google Drive and be a cheap alternative when Google stops offering free photo storage.
It doesn't seem to be restricted to the country,
though I would be careful, wait a few months before you try as I see a few people complaining about silly bugs and they don't have seem to have a desktop app yet.
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Modi loves your data
The 30INR plan seems to be for the 100GB plan.
The 2TB plan is 234.82INR (199INR + 18% GST = 3.19USD) which is still cheap though
Would I rather have Zuckerburg or Bezos or pichai or Xi loving my data??
@sanvit wonder why you have to pay gst if you are ordering from outside India.
@evnix pricing in OP title incorrect.
2TB annual is INR 2,818 incl GST or @ 39 USDollars.
And
Add the below coupon to reduce the costs by ten precent overall.
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The only country option available was India (at least for me)
got excited by the offer and I spoke too soon
I might still use this if it picks up, rather than stuffing all my data in Google with no human to contact if something goes wrong.
I feel it is cheaper than owning a 2TB SSD over 5 years.
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wow, good service at proper timing.
1Gbps connections are becoming affordable (if not cheaper) in India and this is good service.
i have more than 20 spare pcs and 50+ HDDs and thinking of starting a hosting service from home (for just indian customers) or starting some CDN (with friends in other metro cities and we all share those resources).
few years back, i would say...i would never host a site if it's DC in India but with DO, aws and technology improvement.... things have changed a lot.
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Gonna go for this. The company is being headed (or at least looked by) Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog.
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Below is not a rant, just some early testing/ user feedback. I could write a longer review some other time.
My main interest is in finding out where they store the data. I can bet it is Azure or a Singapore DC. Anything else will positively surprise me, and I am willing to get surprised!
Signed up, and hit the first roadblock:
Paid for 1 month of the 100 GB plan, about 40 US Cents a month :-)
their account management system is not set up to accept email aliases.
Have written to customer service, let us see. I did receive acknowledgement of my ticket.
The chatbot is useless, it throws up an irrelevant (to India) notice about GDPR privacy yada yada... must be shoved down the founders throat by investors/ lawyers.
Bot was unable to find a solution to my queries. I asked:
a. If I sign up for a lower plan using the coupon and decide to upgrade- will the discounted price be applicable?
b. Can I pay for a month now, and then change to annual billing (more for tax reasons)
The bot asked me for my email address ..
"We are not available to attend to your query right now. If you can leave your email address in the box below, someone will get back to you".
This is going to be fun!
becoming affordable (if not cheaper) in India and this is good service.
Just Do it!!!
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which one? Hosting or CDN?
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@vyas will you do a review on your blog? I am interested to see how that works, ftp is supported, etc. or I might just get a month, its cheap
https://webhorizon.net
Whichever makes a business sense to you !
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Alpha Product.
Not even Beta
Not too impressed . Will post later
Update:
For the "India" hype- the website is hosted in germany ?
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So I sent a tweet to the founder, let us see what they come back with. Does this make sense?
Maybe I do Not understand Tech. Help appreciated. Why would anyone use a CDN in Germany for a website hosted in india?
Update:
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I am just guessing here, May be the traffic out of Germany would be cheaper, like how bunnyCDN does for certain locations.
or likely the CDN provider simply does not have a location in India.
They seem to use cloudflare SSL ?
and you are right about the India hype, they have used the word India 14 times on the frontpage, now I can imagine how lame it would sound if every American website shouted USA! USA! USA! It will be a while before people learn not to do that and that there is a world outside their own country.
I can see why they did that, With all the companies blatantly selling your data, I can imagine people would rather have the data be within the country and that may be a good selling point.
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I have noticed in the past that CF free cdn tier routed traffic to Germany.
Their main website A record points to single IP that I believe traces to Interworks. The 9 ms latency in Germany (from Hetzner) also suggests the same... main domain could be hosted in Germany.
Why they use some CDN which is actually slowing down traffic from India when the intention is to speed up traffic FROM India.... is beyond me.
The subdomain used for storage (accounts. ) is behind Cloudflare..
This was my response to the guys tweet, and I left it at that. Broken design, half baked product.
Media reports btw also mentioned INR 30 for 5 TB data!! Which they have not bothered to correct.! So your initial post was probably derived from one such source.
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My tweet response is below:
Maybe I do not understand tech, and maybe it doesn't make sense to me traffic to Digiboxx website from India should be routed to Europe. And why the chat bot shows European GDPR compliance notice, when accessing the website from BLR. But thanks anyways.
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On a lighter note,
See what you started with your OP!
Edit: That explains a thing or two
https://viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=digiboxx.com
Sory I got a little too anal about this one because the founder's response and attitude was far from satisfactory.
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Oh well, I am truly Over Powered ?
They deserve it, the system is just too buggy, I wonder how did it even make past the testing team (or more likely there was no testing team).
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@vyas that makes no sense, twelve99 is Telia guess Germany & I think data is stored in Germany too (I couldn't trace any Indian IP on their services)
They trying to cover with cloudflare now, explains the response.
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So we dont get to pay without a non indian card/ address?
The perfect place to upload photojournalism large RAWs from the Farmer Protests around Delhi.
JK. I have absolutely no idea what this is.
a homebrewed Nextcloud? ELI5?
I am not going to try for next 2 years. Edit: Till it is proven but they will promote like hell what they did for paytm
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https://securitytrails.com/list/apex_domain/digiboxx.com
Interesting subdomains.
The platform is based on PHP7.2 which EOL'd in/....?
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I blame the recruitment/hiring system.
Hiring donkeys to do the work of horses, doesn't go good.
You know what I am talking about. I bet most of the "engineers" hired to build that would be definitely not based on merit but the other insane factors. Reservation system
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This just makes me sad.
That is digiboxx.in, which is a sedo parking page (germany hosted), there is no site at that domain.
The twitter response is one of the technically incompetent I have ever seen though.
The app is incredibly badly written. There are so many ridiculous misspellings it's not even funny. Like the word Fragment and Listener are misspelled everywhere - you literally have to spell it right to extend the class, how do you screw that up?
For all the bragging about India First, it appears they load previews in an embedded webview
https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=....
, basically sending it to GAlso, debug mode is on
Whoever they paid to build this, it's too much
I stand corrected on that one. There was a news article that originally referred to the .in domain, syndicated at multiple locations. They had other factual errors, some of which they rectified. The .com is hosted at WebWerks in Mumbai (most likely) and is slapped behind Cloudflare.
Too late to update my above post, but indeeed, the .in was the logical TLD. The .com has been around for a while looks like.
Update: I will post an update to the tweet, could not edit so had to delete.
There is more pain to come for users :-)
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so @vyas yay or nay ? can we push or pull backup ? rclone,ftp/sftp anything ?
Nay still.
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I'd like to try it. Any idea of some reputed services that can provide a phone number in India for receiving sms? I am not looking for those free otp burner phone numbers... could not find any.
Interesting to see that they are able to activate multiple accounts under same phone number!
Update:
they refunded me the amount for 1 months paid subscription,and it is curtains drawn onDigiboxx. Wishing the guys all the best, it was not a servicee worth my time.
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