Earlier quoted context omitted.
(mindblown)
Man, I guess nobody likes even a little humor around here.
Just be happy that you didn't get hell banned because someone didn't like your joke. HN is worse than reddit sometimes.
Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gdrive is not a competitor to S3. Google Cloud Storage is.
I should have made it clear, thanks for pointing it out. I guess this was in the wake of Google Cloud Platform pricing going down yesterday?
I think they were planning to announce a price drop anyway as they are doing their annual cloud shindig in SF today.
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#83This almost brings it down to where I can start backing things up onto S3. Currently my home NAS houses just under 500 GB's of stuff. My requirements to back this up offsite would be (1) full encryption of each file and filename using a key only I hold and (2) reasonable per-month price to where I cannot justify just buying another box with a bunch of drives and sticking them at a friend's house.
I believe I can solve the former with S3, though I still don't know of a turnkey solution. The latter is not quite there but this update brings it a lot closer. At this point it would cost me $15/month or $180/year. That's not terrible, but for that price I can easily have two 2TB WD Red drives. The box to house them would cost just a bit more since I need no horsepower, but just enough to run ZFS.
Glacier is a more attractive option, but the fact that the price is so complex when transferring data out of it, I'd be looking at taking months to restore everything just to not pay to dollar for it.
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#84This almost brings it down to where I can start backing things up onto S3. Currently my home NAS houses just under 500 GB's of stuff. My requirements to back this up offsite would be (1) full encryption of each file and filename using a key only I hold and (2) reasonable per-month price to where I cannot justify just buying another box with a bunch of drives and sticking them at a friend's house. I believe I can solv…
Check out git-annex (and the corresponding assistant). I haven't used it yet, but it supposedly supports S3 and glacier, and hard drives and will tell you where each file is backed up.
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
>While they may not all be "cloud" providers Then they are not "other options", that's the point.
There most certainly are other cloud providers out there, but it would help if you defined what you are looking for instead of conflating issues. Webhostingtalk is a good resource for the curious.
>There most certainly are other cloud providers out there
With similar pricing to amazon. Are you not reading any of the replies you've gotten?
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#86This almost brings it down to where I can start backing things up onto S3. Currently my home NAS houses just under 500 GB's of stuff. My requirements to back this up offsite would be (1) full encryption of each file and filename using a key only I hold and (2) reasonable per-month price to where I cannot justify just buying another box with a bunch of drives and sticking them at a friend's house. I believe I can solv…
Check out CamliStore at http://camlistore.org/. It's far more than backup, but it accomplishes that as well and supports S3 as well as Google Cloud Storage.
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#87This almost brings it down to where I can start backing things up onto S3. Currently my home NAS houses just under 500 GB's of stuff. My requirements to back this up offsite would be (1) full encryption of each file and filename using a key only I hold and (2) reasonable per-month price to where I cannot justify just buying another box with a bunch of drives and sticking them at a friend's house. I believe I can solv…
Google Drive would be $120 / year for your 500 GB.
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#88It would be interesting to go back through the Everpix post mortem docs[1] and see if a big price swing like this could have put them in the black (or close to it). [1] https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence
It might have been enough for them to keep investor interest [new round of funding] and continue. It wouldn't have put them in the black. https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/blob/master/... From that, it looks like their loss over 26 months was ~$300,000. Their total AWS costs was less than $400,000 over the same period. Downloading 1 GB = 4x the cost of the S3 storage at the reduced prices. If everything…
very cool repository, found the S3 data here:
https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/blob/master/...
So basically at their peak, they had ~174TB S3 and ~47TB S3 RRS. That month cost them ~$16.2k, whereas after April 1 they could have put everything in S3 for ~$6.7k. That's a big difference, but they were still getting taken to the cleaners over some other services like RDS.
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#89Same date as Google's cloud storage price changes.