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by onionjake 1905 days ago
Interesting thought thread on our pricing structure... It saves money if you intend to send the backup to 10x places every month. If you only intend to do it once though you don't come out ahead $10 * 3=$30 versus $1 * 3+$22.50 = $25.50.
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Good point -- the minimum 3-month storage duration eliminates this edge case for one-offs (since 3 * $0.4 > $1).

That said, it almost breaks even after the first month and pays off for itself a week into the second month. To eliminate this incentive, I'd suggest setting the cost of egress at (or below) the cost of storage.

It also would make more sense to me as a prospective customer that I'm not paying crazy overage fees, and I'm paying as if I reuploaded the same data and downloaded it an extra time.