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Another article is posted to HN right now about cloud storage. It seems significant but I guess it is not worthy of the front page: Tencent will apparently be
by gwu78 13y ago
Another article is posted to HN right now about cloud storage. It seems significant but I guess it is not worthy of the front page: Tencent will apparently be offering up to 10TB of free storage, hosted on servers outside China.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759714
Will they be an Amazon S3 reseller like Dropbox? Amazon storage is expensive. I do not know how Dropbox can compete with companies who build their own datacenters.
- bryanh 13y agoThis assumes pricing is the primary thing that consumers chose by. Which isn't true. Also, as storage costs decrease (and they will, of course), owning your own datacenter isn't as big of an advantage in the long term.