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Two reasons come to mind: 1. Tarsnap isn't VC-backed, so it can't play the "sell dollar bills for 80 cents each" game to expand its customer base. (On the fli
by cperciva 11y ago
Two reasons come to mind:
1. Tarsnap isn't VC-backed, so it can't play the "sell dollar bills for 80 cents each" game to expand its customer base. (On the flip side, this means that you don't have to worry about Tarsnap shutting down if it can't get any more VC money.)
2. "Consumer grade" backup services save a lot of money thanks to the fact that their customers skew heavily towards using only a small fraction of the storage space they are paying for. I think that approach to pricing is borderline dishonest; with Tarsnap you'll pay for exactly what you use (which means that a lot of people are paying a few cents per month).