For work projects - no, haven't in many years, since 2016 iirc. For personal projects - yes - I have plenty of hardware resources to spare so it costs as much a

For work projects - no, haven't in many years, since 2016 iirc. For personal projects - yes - I have plenty of hardware resources to spare so it costs as much as the electricity needed to run them(which they do regardless). That said, backup dumps go to a gcp bucket since it's far less likely to fail then one or two drives shoved in the basement and storage itself is incredibly cheap. Besides personal projects in my case are not a source of income so cutting costs as much as possible is the sensible thing to do.