Digital BW, The Print

Realizing I need to include off-site backups in my backup plan, I'm looking into various cloud storage options(online storage on someone else's server). Liking to keep things inexpensive, I signed up for Microsoft's Skydrive which offers 25 GB of free storage space (skydrive.com). Thanks MickeySoft! While that's a huge amount of space to give away for free, and will hold lots of documents, photographers on this forum will likely need more space. Nevertheless, it's a good place for me to start. There's some hoops to jump through to use this space, like the need for a WindowsLive registration, and some confusion as MS goes through some cloud based growing pains. 

To upload my files I've tried Skydrive Explorer (cloudstorageexplorer.com), a free program with basic functions and a upgraded paid version with slightly more features. I'm also trying another free/paid upgrade program called Gladinet (gladinet.com) that offers professional level features (e.g., mirrored uploading to multiple cloud sites). I've done my first uploads with both and Gladinet is quite interesting, to say the least.

So, the reason for the post is to ask if others here have started to use cloud storage services for their photos and what have you learned that would be useful to those of us just starting out? And sorry for the OT subject. Thanks!

Michael