If you are a user on a shared server, be that shared hosting or VPS hosting, have you ever wondered, what is my host’s strategy in storage and backup? Is it as robust as it claims?

The disk array error fiasco at VPSLink, has revealed some dark side of shared servers — or when the server hardware setup is out of your control. How would you know that your hosting company is using RAID 0 with SATA drives that is probably having double the failure rate as the drives are stripped?

Tough luck.

Joyent, the company behind the developer-centric hosting service TextDrive, has released a new product — Bingo! on-line disk service.

Joyent’s new Bingo! on-line disk service gives you 100 gigabytes of disk storage on Sun’s amazing X4500 platform with 10 gigabytes of bandwidth per month over WebDAV for the super-low price of $199 a year! You get one user account and the ability to serve files from a public folder (for images, podcasts, whatever). On top of this, you get a complimentary 5-user subscription to Connector, Joyent’s amazing group collaboration product.