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They compare themselves to museums, libraries and universities, but maybe the better analogy would be a graveyard: you pay once for a small amount of storage th
by jetrink 6y ago
They compare themselves to museums, libraries and universities, but maybe the better analogy would be a graveyard: you pay once for a small amount of storage that is yours forever (or at least until the nearby airport needs to add a runway.)
- cocktailpeanuts 6y agoEven that is far from adequate analogy if you think about the economics behind these things. Buying a graveyard is essentially buying a piece of land (and maybe some very little amount of ongoing maintenance cost) A web storage is not only for storing on a hard drive because unless you can reliably read from it, it means nothing. And THIS costs a lot of money, for maintenance and ongoing innovation to keep the costs down. If storing someone else's data for free at scale was such an easy problem, none of the web startups would be going down.
- ValentineC 6y ago> Buying a graveyard is essentially buying a piece of land (and maybe some very little amount of ongoing maintenance cost) If one thinks further, they'll also want to plan for the possibility of state-enforced exhumation or eminent domain, among other things.