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Paging Colin Percival (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva ) and tarsnap ( http://www.daemonology.net/blog
by ableal 18y ago
Paging Colin Percival (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva ) and tarsnap ( http://www.daemonology.net/blog/ http://www.daemonology.net/blog/ ) to the white courtesy phone.
(Guy's too polite to come toot his own horn here.) Might fit your use case, if you're willing to trade shine for price-efficiency.
- frossie 18y agoIs it price-efficiency? It comes out to $180 per year for 50GB, making it twice as expensive as dropbox, unless my math is really screwy.
- ableal 18y ago(caught 'assuming', trying to pull pants up quickly ;-) No, you're right - my basic arithmetic comes out with the same number, now that I've checked it. Good catch. I assumed (thwack) that, since 'tarsnap' is only taking a small premium over Amazon S3 charges for real use, it would always be a better price. Wrong (thwack), if you do have between 30 and 50 GB. Possibly Dropbox can beat the price because the buyers of the 50GB plan use less than half, in average. (Leaving aside considerations of Amazon vs. dedicated infrastructure costs.)