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Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

#31

Post by roywalker »

B-Con wrote: post #4

It's not granular enough for small scale/personal use. If someone were considering using S3 for a small project, or even just personal backup, this wouldn't really help them. The sliders should offer some way to get more granularity. Maybe scale the sliders the higher they go, or have a separate option to select the scale you want to work on.

I think that adding some popular/pre-defined packages (that could change the slider's values) would help "regular" users.

About the slider, the horizontal lines are useless without references.

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

#32

Post by [deleted] »

_suoiruc wrote: post #30
andrewcooke wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my dad loves dropbox. he would be lost with s3. for most people it's not "arguably value added"; it's the difference between possible and not. (another vote for a log scale (or something equivalent, like a separate "units" that sets the scale to 1s, 10s, 100s...). also, the tick marks should be on reasonable, round values)

Right. And the topic of this thread is a price matrix for S3. Presumably your Dad is not going to be looking at it.

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Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

#33

Post by [deleted] »

_suoiruc wrote: post #30
andrewcooke wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my dad loves dropbox. he would be lost with s3. for most people it's not "arguably value added"; it's the difference between possible and not. (another vote for a log scale (or something equivalent, like a separate "units" that sets the scale to 1s, 10s, 100s...). also, the tick marks should be on reasonable, round values)

Right. And the topic of this thread is a price matrix for S3. Presumably your Dad is not going to be looking at it.

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Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

#34

Post by andrewcooke »

_suoiruc wrote: post #30
andrewcooke wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my dad loves dropbox. he would be lost with s3. for most people it's not "arguably value added"; it's the difference between possible and not. (another vote for a log scale (or something equivalent, like a separate "units" that sets the scale to 1s, 10s, 100s...). also, the tick marks should be on reasonable, round values)

Right. And the topic of this thread is a price matrix for S3. Presumably your Dad is not going to be looking at it.

then maybe you should have said something along those lines earlier, instead of repeatedly asserting that s3 and dropbox are equivalent (and then asking if you'd missed anything).

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

#35

Post by _suoiruc »

andrewcooke wrote: post #34
_suoiruc wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right. And the topic of this thread is a price matrix for S3. Presumably your Dad is not going to be looking at it.

then maybe you should have said something along those lines earlier, instead of repeatedly asserting that s3 and dropbox are equivalent (and then asking if you'd missed anything).

Do you read carefully? When I asked if I missed anything I was referring to anything besides the arguable "value add". My apologies if that was not clear. But the value add is precisely what you focused on, and argued (predictably): the python, rsync and the icon. I'm asking about the S3 component.

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

#37

Post by kalid »

B-Con wrote: post #4

It's not granular enough for small scale/personal use. If someone were considering using S3 for a small project, or even just personal backup, this wouldn't really help them. The sliders should offer some way to get more granularity. Maybe scale the sliders the higher they go, or have a separate option to select the scale you want to work on.

Shameless plug, but I have a pet project to help with these types of calculations. I made a quick calc here:

http://instacalc.com/4471

You can type in any amounts you need. OP has a great visualization though!

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

#38

Post by override »

B-Con wrote: post #4

It's not granular enough for small scale/personal use. If someone were considering using S3 for a small project, or even just personal backup, this wouldn't really help them. The sliders should offer some way to get more granularity. Maybe scale the sliders the higher they go, or have a separate option to select the scale you want to work on.

Should also add Reduced Redundancy option.

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

#39

Post by hobonumber1 »

kalid wrote: post #37
B-Con wrote: post #4

It's not granular enough for small scale/personal use. If someone were considering using S3 for a small project, or even just personal backup, this wouldn't really help them. The sliders should offer some way to get more granularity. Maybe scale the sliders the higher they go, or have a separate option to select the scale you want to work on.

Shameless plug, but I have a pet project to help with these types of calculations. I made a quick calc here: http://instacalc.com/4471 You can type in any amounts you need. OP has a great visualization though!

This is great!

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

#40

Post by kalid »

hobonumber1 wrote: post #39
kalid wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shameless plug, but I have a pet project to help with these types of calculations. I made a quick calc here: http://instacalc.com/4471 You can type in any amounts you need. OP has a great visualization though!

This is great!

Thanks, it's been in the works for a while but it's a fun side thing.
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