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by toomuchtodo 410 days ago
https://help.archive.org/help/archive-org-information/ and first hand conversations with their engineering team

> We estimate that permanent storage costs us approximately $2.00US per gigabyte.

https://webservices.archive.org/pages/vault/

> Vault offers a low-cost pricing model based on a one-time price per-gigabyte/terabyte for data deposited in the system, with no additional annual storage fees or data egress costs.

https://blog.dshr.org/2017/08/economic-model-of-long-term-st...

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What's the read throughout to get the data back out, and does it scale to what you'd need to have N search indexes building on top of this shared crawl?
they could charge data processing costs for reads