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Perhaps DropBox et al will be able to make use of this Infrastructure to lower the costs of their service...
by tommoor 14y ago
Perhaps DropBox et al will be able to make use of this Infrastructure to lower the costs of their service...
- lubos 14y agoor finally to break even?
- ch0wn 14y agoHow do you think they could use this service? I can't think of a use case for them.
- biot 14y agoThey store the last 30 days worth of versions of every file you modify. Dropbox could keep versions from the last 10 days in S3 but move the rest to Glacier. Restores for older versions wouldn't be instant, but if S3 storage is a nontrivial expense for them moving the bulk of previous versions to Glacier would cut down on costs.
- icebraining 14y agoAnd 30 days is only for free accounts. Packrat is a Dropbox Pro add-on feature that saves your file history indefinitely.
- tommoor 14y agoI would guess it's a non-trivial expense ;-)