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If you need cloud storage for archival, consider Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. $1/TB/month and S3 is probably the last storage service on the Internet to "go
by Hamuko 3y ago
If you need cloud storage for archival, consider Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. $1/TB/month and S3 is probably the last storage service on the Internet to "go away".
Retrieval costs are pretty awful but helluva lot better than losing everything.
- _lvbh 3y agoWhy do people pay for things like Google Drive or Dropbox when S3 storage is so cheap?
- oefrha 3y agoWhy use Dropbox when you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, back in 2007 even?
- Valgrim 3y agoI understand some of these words.
- chronogram 3y agoIt's a reference to the comments of the "Show HN" of Dropbox back in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- mlyle 3y agoBecause I can't store my gmail and Google Docs documents on S3, and because Google Photos is easier to use than cramming my stuff to S3.
- crazygringo 3y agoYup. It's not just that I use Docs, but I don't know what I'd do without Google Drive Search across all my documents. Same with searching photos using text search. Also Google Drive for Desktop. I'm sure there's an equivalent for S3 but I don't know if it works as well.
- tomjen3 3y agoS3 may be last storage service on the internet to go away, but if you stop paying for a while (forget, credit card expires, medical issues), then your data will dissappear.
- hn92726819 3y agoEvery backup restore test will also be quite expensive with glacier