I do think (1.) depends on your company size, and business model. For most, it's cheap, e.g. https://rsync.net/pricing.html https://rsync.net/pricing.html Tha

I do think (1.) depends on your company size, and business model. For most, it's cheap, e.g. https://rsync.net/pricing.html https://rsync.net/pricing.html That said I was once a CTO for a company with 10 photo studios and we had a large amount of new (raw, DSLR) photos per minute, so cost was an issue and also upload speed for offsite backups.