

There are quite a few steps involved in set-up-you have to download the app, "claim" the free space, and so on-but a kind fellow on the interwebs has created a step-by-step tutorial with screenshots for English speakers. It's currently only available in Chinese. Yup, Baidu, China's most popular and widely used search engine website, also hosts a cloud storage platform. Since then, it's back up and running, offering new users 15GB of free storage space to start with, which increases by 1TB every year without limit (so they say). Actually, it used to be one of the leading cloud storage providers in China before it abruptly shut down in August 2012. Yes, the website design looks suspiciously like that of Facebook's, but it's legit. 115.com: 15GB to start, plus 1TB/yearĪha, another one available in English. After set-up, it's all laid out in a straight-forward enough manner, with lots of icons, so it's fairly easy to navigate from there. This one is only available in Chinese at the moment, so you'll either have to stumble your way through the set-up process or have a Chinese-speaking friend help you with that. Kanbox: up to 10TBĪs if in response to Tencent upping the cloud storage game, Alibaba (of Taobao, Alipay and Youku fame) acquired Kanbox, offering the same variety of Dropbox-esque services while matching that 10TB of free storage space. Extra plus for non-Chinese speaking users: it's available in English too. You have to have a QQ account, or sign up for one, to use it, though. An added feature on Weiyun is the ability to generate a unique QR code for sharing specific files or folders. You can view, edit, share and download any of this content through your computer and across all mobile platforms. Initially, Weiyun was only able to store photos, video, and audio, but it's since extended compatibility to websites, documents and entire file folders. Weiyun is the cloud service from Tencent, the same tech giant behind QQ instant messenger, WeChat, Weibo, and so on. The 2GB cap on free storage is never enough, though, so here are some Chinese cloud services that offer free storage in the terabytes. Yeah, we all know and love Dropbox, but our inner cheapskates usually prevent us from forking over the money required for a monthly subscription.
