One of the examples is Amazon's S3 storage service which features -
* Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost.
* $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used.
* $0.20 per GB of data transferred.
Even if you aren't a web developer it seems like this would be a viable option for storing digital data in a safe off-site area. There are certainly many other ways of doing this, but for convenience and peace of mind having a web server with your data makes sense.
You could scan any photos, kid's drawings, poems, stories - etc. that you want to keep, have Amazon keep them on their server and then you don't have to worry about carrying CD's/DVD's with you when you move, transferring them to your new PC, or having a fire, flood, or other natural disaster wiping out your digital library.
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