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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by __soter__ on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:26PM (#25909814)
$5 for 250GB of storage and then $20 per TB ($0.02/GB) after that seems a bit steep.

  Plans and Pricing
  The base rate of a Spaces subscription is $5/month and gives you the ability to create multiple Spaces.
  The subscription includes 250 GiB of data storage (cumulative across all of your Spaces). Additional storage beyond this allotment is $0.02/GiB. If you cancel your subscription by destroying all your Spaces, your bill will be prorated hourly.
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/spaces/
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by foolmeonce on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:21PM (#25910322)
I think hetzner is about half an expensive (€8 tb/m) and I personally prefer ssh/rsync to http/S3.
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by ogre_codes on Monday January 25, 2021 @07:41PM (#25910986)
I don't know what Hetzner is, but if rsync is available, it's a much better option, particularly if you can do incremental syncing you can get a fairly robust setup with very little code.
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by gruez on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:46PM (#25912661)
>I think hetzner is about half an expensive (€8 tb/m)

What offering is that? Their "storage" page quotes 26 euros for 5TB.

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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by foolmeonce on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:49AM (#25913497)
The BX30 in 7.90 before any country specific tax. But that is the 1tb price as the price per TB is discounted by volume (and you get more snapshots, etc.)
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by gruez on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:56AM (#25916395)
Okay I see now. If you switch VAT region to us and get the biggest size, it works out to 3.9 euro per TB per month.
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by mynegation on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:32PM (#25912566)
With prices like that, Microsoft Office 365 subscription that gives you 1TB of OneDrive space, seems like a better deal.
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by christophilus on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:25PM (#25910361)
I’ve been happy with Wasabi.
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by secfirstmd on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:28PM (#25909829)
Interesting comparison price when something like Sia is so cheap per TB (4 dollars). Will be interesting to see how it developers.
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by StavrosK on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:51PM (#25910582)
I tried to use Sia once but I needed to download the entire blockchain. Not a fan of storing 5 GB locally so I can store 1 GB remotely...
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by mitjafelicijan on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:30PM (#25909843)
It looks they also have S3 support now. Will need to try it out.

https://blog.sia.tech/introducing-s3-style-file-sharing-for-...

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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by jrockway on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:38PM (#25909925)
I think $20/TB*month is exactly what GCP charges, and is probably on par with what Amazon charges.
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Re:Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces by secfirstmd on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:45PM (#25909983)
True. That's what makes Sia intriguing
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