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For some SaaS businesses although, such as dropbox & google drive, their most of their business is storage. It would be hard to blame those kinds of services t
by woolvalley 9y ago
For some SaaS businesses although, such as dropbox & google drive, their most of their business is storage. It would be hard to blame those kinds of services to keep on billing you even if you don't look at the data most of the time.
- gnode 9y agoPretty much all SaaS businesses have storage as significant factor. Office 365 has documents; DocuSign has contracts; Salesforce has customer information. Even if it's not a significant amount of data in commodity storage terms, the storage and handling of that data is central to the service.
- jacquesm 9y agoThat's different. Storage is 'in use' when you're using it, period. But when you have a dropbox subscription and you don't use your storage then that should not be charged imo.
- sah2ed 9y agoI think it's much more subtle. It might be better to separate the two use cases as: "data at rest" and "data in use" like Amazon does with S3 where they charge separately for storage and transfer costs. If you do not access your data stored on S3 throughout a billing period, your invoice will only reflect those costs -- your usage costs will be stated as $0 for that month.