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Re: C14 – Cheap, secure long term cloud storage

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post #56

Their comparison section looks like an advertisement for Backblaze B2. C14 looked interesting until I got to that part. Now, I'm not sure why I would choose C14 over Backblaze.

I think there may be something missing in the comparison table. When I look at the prices of Backblaze, https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-providers.html it is $0.05 for 1 mo but in the table on the website of C14, it's written "free"

Re: C14 – Cheap, secure long term cloud storage

#63
post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it's pretty silly to say "no military risk" about any single location. Yes, France is as geopolitically stable location as there is on Earth, but it's also part of NATO and NATO has rivals, like Russia and China, with whom they may go to war with in the future. France has been invaded in the past, and may be again. If you're really concerned about possibilities like that, you should be storing your data redunda…

Antartica?

But what if there is a massive Goa'uld battle?

Re: C14 – Cheap, secure long term cloud storage

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post #56

Their comparison section looks like an advertisement for Backblaze B2. C14 looked interesting until I got to that part. Now, I'm not sure why I would choose C14 over Backblaze.

I think there may be something missing in the comparison table. When I look at the prices of Backblaze, https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-providers.html it is $0.05 for 1 mo but in the table on the website of C14, it's written "free"

Also I think Backblaze is geared towards backing up your Desktop with its own client software, or can I use regular scp/ftp/etc(standard transfer utilties) to do my own upload/download?

Re: C14 – Cheap, secure long term cloud storage

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For anyone else who was wondering what "80 Go" means, it's 80GB.

It took me a few seconds to realize they're located in Paris and the French call their bytes "octets" -- hence, giga octets and tera octets. At first I thought it was something like "80 Go instances" where Go might be a cheap vps variant of theirs or something.

Re: C14 – Cheap, secure long term cloud storage

#68

I am confused: what is the "Cost of Operation"? Is that a one-time fee? For 1.3 TB of data, they are quoting something like 2.58 per month and 12.88 "Cost of operation". Also, can I use this with duplicity?

I find it a bit confusing as well, but I assume it means when you "operate" on the data: read or write it from disk.

Edit: this seems to be it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11969786

Re: C14 – Cheap, secure long term cloud storage

#69

I am confused: what is the "Cost of Operation"? Is that a one-time fee? For 1.3 TB of data, they are quoting something like 2.58 per month and 12.88 "Cost of operation". Also, can I use this with duplicity?

After reading the page the 'cost of operation' might be what happened before-your-download and after-your-upload, as you are dealing with its deposit-cache-storage, so I assume it means 'archive-from-deposit/unarchive-to-deposit'. This is the same as charging for download(so download is _not_ free), and nearly the same as charging for upload(unless you remove the uploaded content from deposit quickly).

For Glacier I believe the download is not free? You need pay for the retrieval of stored data.

Re: C14 – Cheap, secure long term cloud storage

#70
post #7

This looks great and seems feature-rich enough to get started with straight away! I'll definitely check it out for server backups over scp. My only suggestion is that you have a native English speaker proofread the text on your website. There are a few grammatical and translation errors which make the service seem less professional.

Or just anyone who actually speaks English. As a Dutchman I spotted a bunch of mistakes as well...
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