I Nearly Lost All of My Data

Re:I Nearly Lost All of My Data by ValentineC on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:08PM (#18954902)

> Thinking about it, I think this would be a great idea for a startup. Cheap data storage for long term storage, with competitive prices, the ability to per-pay, user-side encryption and a simple UI that grandma can use to drop photos. It should be able to guarantee that the information you desire to will outlive you.

As a consumer, I wouldn't trust a startup for such needs, because there's a likelihood that the startup would either raise prices, pivot to a different service offering, or shut down entirely.

Google Cloud Platform lets you make a manual prepayment [1], so that's an option worth considering. I know Google gets a lot of flak for shutting down consumer services, but I'm inclined to believe that they wouldn't shut down Nearline/Coldline without a significant amount of notice.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/manual-payment

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Re:I Nearly Lost All of My Data by RealityVoid on Sunday January 20, 2019 @03:03PM (#18955254)

> As a consumer, I wouldn't trust a startup for such needs, because there's a likelihood that the startup would either raise prices, pivot to a different service offering, or shut down entirely.

Fair enough. It's just that I think something in the field that can do these things would be filling a need. And all companies have to start _somewhere_

But I agree, getting a promise of long-term availability from a new company is a bit rich.

Thanks for the info about GCP - I looked mostly into AWS glacier and I know AWS did not have a prepay offer.

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