@kkarhan
> I'd not trust any "one time purchase" cloud storage because that model is unsustainable by virtue of recurring costs!
You may not trust it but you haven't I believe looked into this case. In which case your judgement is premature.
I won't argue against your intuition or gut feel for this, which I accept as understandable. Nor that I know that you are wrong.
Having understood the arguments for this, I believe it needs testing because it is a thing worth having.
@happyborg @dalai @jwildeboer most of these providers claim that they can recoup the cost with new purchases and shrinking costs for storage over time, which makes this truly a #PyramidScheme.
OFC they also throtthe users and don't expect everyone to max out their purchased storage quota instantly.
But I'm not just comparing against short-term filehosters but also in terms of #backups consider years, if not decades of uptime to be necessary to be useful.
Also mind you this ain't like #TeamViewer where the cost of infrastructure is negligible (just some "Rendrevous-Server" to exchange status info, IP addresses and facilitate "Hole Pubching" through #NAT & #Firewall which in theory doesn't reuire mich compute and bandwith to function.
We're talking Gigabytes if not Terabytes per User in storage and traffic.
And since this system isn't like some #ColdStorage like a #tape, this needs to be #HDDs that constantly spin and draw power.
