

However, Google Drive was very close to getting a perfect score here as well, with just 1 minute of downtime. Our monitoring indicates that all of these services offer great availability, with some minor differences.ĭuring the 30 days of this survey, the only service that had zero downtime was Box.com. Service reliabilityįirst we should get the reliability question out of the way. We uploaded the same identical file to the four services, a small PNG image, and made it publicly available so we could monitor it. To monitor reliability and performance, in this specific case we thought their homepages were less important than the actual file hosting they offer, so that is what we focused on. They should give us some additional perspective. To make this survey even more interesting, we also added two other file hosting services: Microsoft’s SkyDrive and Box.com.

And since we here at Pingdom do site monitoring we have focused on how these services compare in terms of performance and reliability.

We’re not going to compare features in this article, but rather test something we can actually measure. Dropbox is getting more and more competition, and now Google has joined the fray with Google Drive.
