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Given that these price increases are for things like long term storage I wouldn’t start thinking about home hosting as an alternative. The whole point is having

Given that these price increases are for things like long term storage I wouldn’t start thinking about home hosting as an alternative. The whole point is having a secure backup and your home isn’t going to cut it.

bpye 5y ago
I’ve had pretty good luck with B2 for storage. In my case it is as an online backup for my home hosted services (storage + DB).
- immibis 5y ago
  If it's just for your off-site backup, Glacier Deep Archive is 1/5 the cost of B2... until you need to restore it.
  - bpye 5y ago
    Yeah, I did the maths on that (and similar from GCP and Azure) and deep archive could be less expensive, but the cost of not only restore but also egress made me quite apprehensive. The current monthly cost is totally affordable and in the case I need to restore I’m not facing any additional charge… Now, I’m backing up a bit over 1TB - depending on the amount of data you might come to a different conclusion.
    - Dylan16807 5y ago
      Restore by itself is just fine on Amazon. 20x smaller than on GCP. The problem is entirely egress.
chaxor 5y ago
I wouldn't discourage anyone from home hosting really. It's getting to be pretty clear that it's cheaper, far better for privacy concerns, and gives you much more control. It seems that companies are beginning to ramp up the prices now - since once you've put your data with them, they can increase charges whenever they like. They know they have a large portion of the population using these data storage solutions, and they're likely going to start abusing that power. If you know what a desktop is, I would suggest trying to self host - even if it's just dead simple raid10 on OpenVPN with syncthing. Heck, put one at another family members place and you probably have a more geographically diverse setup for your data than Amazon does.
- anthropodie 5y ago
  Check out r/selfhosted if you are here.
pkulak 5y ago
My home _absolutely_ cuts it. All my data is stored locally in Raid 1 and backed up once a day, immutably, to a remote location. I trust my setup far more than I'll ever trust Google Cloud, or whatever else.
formvoltron 5y ago
I'll store your stuff at my home if it makes you feel better.
- LoveGracePeace 5y ago
  C2C IaaS YMMV YHIHF

bpye 5y ago

I’ve had pretty good luck with B2 for storage. In my case it is as an online backup for my home hosted services (storage + DB).

immibis 5y ago
If it's just for your off-site backup, Glacier Deep Archive is 1/5 the cost of B2... until you need to restore it.
- bpye 5y ago
  Yeah, I did the maths on that (and similar from GCP and Azure) and deep archive could be less expensive, but the cost of not only restore but also egress made me quite apprehensive. The current monthly cost is totally affordable and in the case I need to restore I’m not facing any additional charge… Now, I’m backing up a bit over 1TB - depending on the amount of data you might come to a different conclusion.
  - Dylan16807 5y ago
    Restore by itself is just fine on Amazon. 20x smaller than on GCP. The problem is entirely egress.

chaxor 5y ago

I wouldn't discourage anyone from home hosting really. It's getting to be pretty clear that it's cheaper, far better for privacy concerns, and gives you much more control. It seems that companies are beginning to ramp up the prices now - since once you've put your data with them, they can increase charges whenever they like. They know they have a large portion of the population using these data storage solutions, and they're likely going to start abusing that power. If you know what a desktop is, I would suggest trying to self host - even if it's just dead simple raid10 on OpenVPN with syncthing. Heck, put one at another family members place and you probably have a more geographically diverse setup for your data than Amazon does.

anthropodie 5y ago
Check out r/selfhosted if you are here.

pkulak 5y ago

My home _absolutely_ cuts it. All my data is stored locally in Raid 1 and backed up once a day, immutably, to a remote location. I trust my setup far more than I'll ever trust Google Cloud, or whatever else.

formvoltron 5y ago

I'll store your stuff at my home if it makes you feel better.

LoveGracePeace 5y ago
C2C IaaS YMMV YHIHF