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by QuinnyPig 1669 days ago
There’s something “off” about them that’s difficult for me to put my finger on. I think it might be either their marketing approach, or signs of operational immaturity (GoDaddy domain issue taking them down for most of a day, for instance).
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They advertise this on the website:

  > 80% Less than Amazon S3
Why would I use a service that is 80% less reliable than Amazon S3? And if they mean something other than reliability - such as uptime, price, or transfer speed - then they should state it clearly.
It’s not for people that won’t put more than 2 seconds of work into something. It’s a discount service.

That line could easily be a decoy to ward off problem customers who don’t know how to use APIs, read specs, etc and would be high customer service load.

So it's 80% less service than S3, I see ))

In any case, thanks for mentioning the service. I'm quite happy with [Boto](https://github.com/boto/boto3) for interfacing with Glacier but it is good to know about alternatives.

What a ridiculous nitpick.