Do you pay for any online services? If so which ones?

[Locut0s]

Seems nowadays there are good free alternatives to just about any paid for online service. Be it email, online document creation services, online storage, etc etc... There are a few examples though where I would personally think that the paid services are better than the free alternatives. The 2 that come to mind are binary newsgroup services and web hosting. I have paid for both at some time or another and have not been disappointed. What online services do you pay for if any?

 

[l0cke]

I really only pay for off-site backup.

 

[BoomerD]

I only pays for teh intarweb...AT&T refuses to give me my DSL for free.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
I only pays for teh intarweb...AT&T refuses to give me my DSL for free.

Yeah god damn then. Write your local politician, demand free high bandwidth internet for all!!!

 

[Nocturnal]

I pay for flickr.com's pro membership.

 

[Evander]

Not currently, but I am interested in possibly paying for a VPN service in the future (mostly to access foreign websites I normally couldn't, and for security on unsecured wifi)

 

[Modeps]

Flickr Pro, but I wish I didn't... I hate how when you lose your account, it removes all your organization. I've backed up all my photos and won't be doing it again.

 

[CptCrunch]

I pay for webhosting that I use for some off-site backup/file transfers, pay for internet access, pandora radio

 

[jjones]

The only thing I can think of besides web hosting is a stock photo service I use. Sure there's free stock photo services available but the selection and quality is not nearly as good.

 

[Linflas]

Webhosting and usenet.

 

[TheKub]

I have a few websites that I pay for hosting.

I also have tried doing the monthly donations to Rev3 and TWIT. The first transaction goes through then it fails, and I havn't looked into it in depth to see why.

 

[grrl]

Does eBay count?

 

[ViviTheMage]

pay for webhosting and domain names....

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

As far as web pages go, it doesn't seem to be happening any more, but when web sites try to become pay services I leave. Ya, seems like that trend has stopped.

 

[legoman666]

I pay for Giganews.

edit: oh, and Newzbin.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

webhost, that cool service that no one talks about , amazon s3 and domain names (if that counts)

 

[40Hands]

Photo hosting.

 

[tw1164]

mozy

 

[tenthumbs]

Rhapsody

 

[OdiN]

I pay for my cable connection and for web hosting. That's all.

 

[polm]

ISP, usenet, and newzbin.

 

[erub]

Just the connection. I've considered paying for off-site backup though..

 

[Riverhound777]

I don't pay anything, but my company pays a crapload for various services like backups and logmein.

 

[Journer]

web hosting, usenet, newzbin

 

[Nocturnal]

I forgot, I pay for Usenet access and Newzbin lol.