[ocdtrekkie]

A server in my house has "just done all of this" for like ten years. I had to run one command to fix it recently. It has the capacity to support dozens of users.

The idea some shared document editing is worth $10/seat/month is absolutely insane. We have built a temple to madness.

[jryle70]

So you are saying everyone who wants to share a document has to either have their own server, or log in to a server hosted by someone else?

What if that host goes down when the user needs it most, who is responsible for that? Who is doing backup or recovery? What if there is a security breach and users lost data? because Internet access is a must if the server is shared among "dozens of users".

If $10/month is insane, how much should it cost and why?

[orev]

Right, because Amazon and Microsoft never go down… Look, you had some good points, even if arguable, but the whole downtime bogeyman is just pure cloud provider marketing to drum up FUD. You might be surprised to know that many cloud providers, even the big popular ones, don’t handle backups for you.

[ocdtrekkie]

Well I spend about $5/month over the lifetime of a setup that could support like fifty users. So that's like ten cents a month. Maybe add a healthy Big Tech size profit margin, charge 50 cents a seat a month?

[cwmoore]

Is that 50c price a question or an offer? Sounds pretty good but does it interop with Drive and 360? SLA terms? Just window shopping…