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Many of us use multiple cloud storage and file-sharing services and have other files hiding in apps such as Slack and Lightroom. FileShadow promises to combine your files from all those places—and whatever folders on your computer you’d also like to back up—into one place. It covers Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Adobe Creative Cloud, Lightroom, Slack, and Facebook for photos. It’s a compelling idea, especially because FileShadow lets you search across all your connected accounts, and it’s marketed at people who have a disorganized photo collection in particular. While the core idea may be sound, this service only partially delivers on its promise and charges a lot for it. For cloud storage, we recommend Editors’ Choice winners Microsoft OneDrive, which is the best overall,…

Designed for content creators and home power users, the Asustor AS5402T ($369) is a powerful two-bay NAS packed with high-speed components. Sporting a pair of 2.5GbE LAN ports, three 10Gbps USB ports, and four M.2 slots for NVMe solid-state drive caching, the AS5402T delivered incredibly fast file-transfer speeds in our performance testing. It also offers a well-stocked catalog of Asustor and third-party applications. It’s a bit pricey for a dual-bay device that doesn’t come with storage drives, but its beefy specs and speedy performance still easily earn it an Editors’ Choice award for two-bay NAS drives.

Design: Amping Up the Internal Cooling

With a chiseled faceplate and a black finish, the AS5402T looks similar to the AS5202T that we reviewed back in 2019, but this time…

Despite its imposing name, HostMonster isn’t particularly monstrous in any way. In fact, it’s a good, albeit unremarkable, web hosting service that offers the core tools you need to build personal or small business sites. HostMonster has respectable shared, dedicated, and virtual private server (VPS) options, but its basic features keep it from matching the exemplary functionality of Editors’ Choice winners DreamHost, HostGator, and Hostwinds.

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Shared Hosting

If you don’t want to spend too much money on web hosting, shared hosting is the way to go. With this most basic hosting tier, your website lives on a server with other websites. In other words, the sites share a single server’s cost and resources. As a result, shared web hosting is cheap web hosting. Shared…

Many security companies offer a free antivirus; Avast is unusual in offering a free security suite, Avast One Basic. Upgrading to Avast One Gold gets you enhancements in Protection, Privacy, and Performance at a hefty price. Avast One Silver, reviewed here, costs a good bit less than the Gold edition and enhances Protection, Privacy, or Performance—just one of the three. The best thing you can get from Silver’s partial protection is VPN access without limits. Other than that, it’s not much better than the free edition. Before choosing Avast One Silver, consider Bitdefender Internet Security for an entry-level suite or Norton 360 Deluxe for a cross-platform suite. Bitdefender costs a bit more than Avast and Norton is a bit more than that, but both offer a complete set of suite…

It’s a survival game renaissance! Hot on the heels of the mega-popular Enshrouded and Palworld, Nightingale ($29.99) enters Steam Early Access. Featuring similar core features and gameplay loops to Conan Exiles and Valheim, Nightingale injects wit, character, and style into a genre that has historically lacked in those departments. Nightingale’s underlying fundamentals offer an invigorating co-op crafting and adventuring experience, despite frame rate issues and clumsy combat. Still, it’s incomplete, so we’ll hold off scoring the survival game until it exits Steam Early Access.

(Credit: Inflexion Games)

A World Worth…