I recently had evaluated my entire backup plan and CrashPlan was evaluated as a possible change. It was one of two finalists I was debating between. Boy am I glad I didn't go with them. I understand that they will not just cancel the existing users and are only preventing new customers from signing up. But let's be real. We know what this means. It means they will not be giving the individual consumers in any sort of priority whatsoever. The non-commercial customers have now become a legacy operation.
FWIW - the reason I decided against CrashPlan was:
1) I inherently don't trust anything that is unlimited everything (storage space, versions, undelete, etc.)
2) I especially don't trust anything that gives all those unlimited features for a paltry $5 a month
3) My speed was horrendously slow. Seemingly capped at about 2 mpbs (250 kbps).
4) The application seemed to be bloated and resource heavy.
5) They have a well known issue where you can wipe your entire backup from their server if you encounter the dreaded disaster scenario (or get a new machine) and have a fresh O/S with a new installation of the software. If you don't do the steps exactly in the correct order, it will see your new installation as being the source copy and having nothing to store, and subsequently wipe everything on their servers. I see that they recently posted something on August 1, 2017 about "adoption" which seems to be migration for new machines so maybe this issue is finally addressed.
I went though the "adoption" procedure in July with no issues. I was migrating from an aging Windows system to a Linux system and had no issues. I was expecting to have problems and to re-upload my ~500GB of data, but surprisingly it figured out where everything was. That even included moving the data around so I could reformat the NTFS drive to ext4. My only complaint over the years I've been using CrashPlan has been that the Java client is a bit memory hungry.
Sorry, I had split my original (long) comment into two separate ones and I thought I left a brief mention of it.
The winner was pCloud. Please see my other comment for a more detailed explanation of how I have things set up and why I use them if you are interested.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15075935
After checking them out, it does seem like they hit a nice sweet spot of features and price. The lifetime plan is pretty tempting as well, but I do wonder how sustainable that is. I assume they are banking on a charge for increased storage in the future.
FWIW - the reason I decided against CrashPlan was: 1) I inherently don't trust anything that is unlimited everything (storage space, versions, undelete, etc.) 2) I especially don't trust anything that gives all those unlimited features for a paltry $5 a month 3) My speed was horrendously slow. Seemingly capped at about 2 mpbs (250 kbps). 4) The application seemed to be bloated and resource heavy. 5) They have a well known issue where you can wipe your entire backup from their server if you encounter the dreaded disaster scenario (or get a new machine) and have a fresh O/S with a new installation of the software. If you don't do the steps exactly in the correct order, it will see your new installation as being the source copy and having nothing to store, and subsequently wipe everything on their servers. I see that they recently posted something on August 1, 2017 about "adoption" which seems to be migration for new machines so maybe this issue is finally addressed.