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Anecdata, but I've been very happy with pCloud. Notably it regularly goes on sale. I think I got my 2tb lifetime plan for ~$300, and it's been perfectly suffici

Anecdata, but I've been very happy with pCloud. Notably it regularly goes on sale. I think I got my 2tb lifetime plan for ~$300, and it's been perfectly sufficient. I've had it for around 4 years so far, so it's more than paid for itself versus the dropbox subscriptions that it replaced.

xrd 3y ago
That's good to hear, I had not heard of them before and was putting "they will go out of business in x years" into my risk assessment.
leoedin 3y ago
How much trust do you have in the lifetime plan? Surely the only way that can work is if new customers keep arriving - if they ever stop gaining customers then the money stops flowing, and you'd better hope they didn't spend it all.
- Octoth0rpe 3y ago
  > How much trust do you have in the lifetime plan? Very low when I first bought into it, but yeah that was 4 years ago. I've MORE than paid off the up front cost. If they disappeared tomorrow, I'd be comfortable with what I paid. I'd note that my usage may imply a higher level of risk than others may be comfortable with. All of my data is fully local/synced on my personal machine, and not local/available as long as I have internet on phone/tablet. So the only way I'd lose data is if pCloud disappeared _and_ my personal machine blew up in the same day. If pcloud disappears, I'd just dump my local files into iCloud or dropbox or something; and if my personal machine blew up I'd replace it and hope I'd get the replacement before pCloud goes kaput :) Doesn't seem like a terrible strategy. Also, pcloud does have a couple of mechanisms for getting additional revenue from existing customers. For example, you can increase the size of your lifetime plan for an additional one time payment, or add their crypto option. Also, some people presumably may pay month to month. Lastly, the best thing I can do as a pcloud user who is banking on them not going out of business is to occasionally rep them in public so that they get more customers, which I'm doing right now :)
  - xrd 3y ago
    You captured exactly my own backup thinking! Thanks for writing this up.

xrd 3y ago

That's good to hear, I had not heard of them before and was putting "they will go out of business in x years" into my risk assessment.

leoedin 3y ago

How much trust do you have in the lifetime plan? Surely the only way that can work is if new customers keep arriving - if they ever stop gaining customers then the money stops flowing, and you'd better hope they didn't spend it all.

Octoth0rpe 3y ago
> How much trust do you have in the lifetime plan? Very low when I first bought into it, but yeah that was 4 years ago. I've MORE than paid off the up front cost. If they disappeared tomorrow, I'd be comfortable with what I paid. I'd note that my usage may imply a higher level of risk than others may be comfortable with. All of my data is fully local/synced on my personal machine, and not local/available as long as I have internet on phone/tablet. So the only way I'd lose data is if pCloud disappeared _and_ my personal machine blew up in the same day. If pcloud disappears, I'd just dump my local files into iCloud or dropbox or something; and if my personal machine blew up I'd replace it and hope I'd get the replacement before pCloud goes kaput :) Doesn't seem like a terrible strategy. Also, pcloud does have a couple of mechanisms for getting additional revenue from existing customers. For example, you can increase the size of your lifetime plan for an additional one time payment, or add their crypto option. Also, some people presumably may pay month to month. Lastly, the best thing I can do as a pcloud user who is banking on them not going out of business is to occasionally rep them in public so that they get more customers, which I'm doing right now :)
- xrd 3y ago
  You captured exactly my own backup thinking! Thanks for writing this up.