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Solution: VPS outside Canada to do your downloads from. But what you describe is a networking problem (transit costs of your ISP passed on to you). Not a stor
by goodgracious 14y ago
Solution: VPS outside Canada to do your downloads from.
But what you describe is a networking problem (transit costs of your ISP passed on to you). Not a storage problem.
A "cloud storage" provider is just going to keep the data you store in a datacenter near to you anyway, not halfway around the world. But it's not like keeping your physical stuff with a storage company. You can easily store the data yourself with many more advantages. The marketing teams for "cloud storage" services will no doubt try to convince people otherwise.
- Arelius 14y agoThat's not a solution, you still need to get the downloads to a local system to use them for that vast majority of media.
- goodgracious 14y agoTrue, but he's admitting he doesn't access ("use") the data in the same month he downloads it. So downloading from his VPS IP address to the VPS's secondary storage, outside Canada, won't count toward his monthly Canada ISP's cap. It's only when he decides to download data from the VPS's secondary storage to his "local system" he'll begin using his monthly allowance.
- Arelius 14y agoBut that is a pretty atypical usage pattern. So, not the rule we should expect when we are talking about the general "future" of technology.