If you’re looking for web-based personal data backup in the local economy, two stellar backup companies are sitting right in Boston’s backyard. Veteran backup company Carbonite has been around since 2006 and Backupify, currently in Louisville, Ky., is soon moving to Boston.

Congratulations and welcome to Boston, Backupify! We spoke with Founder Rob May about the move, who cited Boston’s ecosystem as a reason for the relocation.

“[If it’s] going to grow into a really big company, we need to be in a place where we can reasonably do that,” he said. And while the talent pool here in Boston was a draw, Backupify were also motivated by the “serendipity of business development relationships” that are able to help their company grow here.

Backupify have plans to do 80% of their hiring within Boston.

Backupify specializes in backing up your “online life,” which lives in the cloud already — social media files and stuff you work on but never save to your computer. Backupify is one of the first cloud to cloud backup companies and though they’re young, they’re already strong with 70,000 customers.

Accoriding to May, the most backed-up service is Twitter, followed by Gmail, Facebook, and finally Google Docs.

The other contender, Carbonite, was co-founded by David Friend after his daughter lost two months worth of a senior thesis due to a hard drive crash. A lot of work, pleading with the professor, and $1,300 dollars later, his daughter still ended up with an unsavory grade in the course. No wonder he then co-founded Carbonite, which was recently named one of the top 60 places to work in Boston. This company is a great example of a local tech heavyweight, and its existence is great for the community and for those looking for signs a company can thrive and grow in Boston.

Carbonite is an interesting company, because as you’ll see below in the chart, they have what Friend calls “all you can eat pricing.” It’s a fixed annual price and users can backup an unlimited number of files.

But how can they afford this? We were curious too. Friend says “it’s all about averages.” Not every consumer is going to upload a crazy amount of data. Those who do, yes, you will lose money on those customers. But the others that don’t back up that much, you’ll make money on them. So it all evens out in the end.

Ultimately, both Backupify and Carbonite are great, cloud-based neighbors and companies worth checking out here in Boston, because they both provide decidedly different services: Backupify backs up cloud data while Carbonite backs up hard drive data.

While we can’t compare apples to oranges, we can give you the run-down of the facts:

Are you backing up? Do you use a portable drive or the Internet to save your data? What service do you use? Let us know in the comments section.

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