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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by storer on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:13PM (#9589201)
Seeing as I haven't heard of it, it doesn't seem to meet my criteria of being popular enough to be likely to be around in 50 years.

EDIT: It's Glacier I haven't heard of, not Amazon.

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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by danso on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:21PM (#9589258)
So...which cloud services are you thinking of that have been around 50 years, for you to be able to establish some kind of rough baseline of what popularity is needed for such longevity? I'm coming up with blanks myself...

In any case, I think the criteria of "I haven't heard of it" is a little strict, given you've made an open question asking for advice on what to use...you should be open to the possibility that there are people here with expertise who know of things that you haven't heard of. For example, you don't seem to have heard of Amazon S3, which Dropbox is based off of. Amazon is also the company behind Glacier, and while Amazon is far from being a sure bet of lasting 50 years, it's a good as bet as any company.

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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by mod on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:24PM (#9589293)
You haven't heard of Amazon and their web services?

I don't think you can guarantee 50 years, regardless of number of services used.

But you'll have plenty of time to offload them before any of these big names shut down.

Also, I'd guess this is your best bet for > 50 years.

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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by seffignoz on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:16PM (#9589224)
It has the same chance (or maybe higher) to be around in the next 50 years, than the the one in the list you provided. Also check AWS S3 out, it all depends on your use case (eg., do you need to access said files on a regular basis?(S3) or you just want to store them and never access them in the next years (Glacier) ?
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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by scurvy on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:48PM (#9589488)
You're asking for cloud storage recommendations and haven't heard of Amazon S3?
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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by Veratyr on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:22PM (#9589271)
Dropbox (which you have heard of) is built on top of Amazon S3. Glacier is a sibling product to S3 and similiarly unlikely to disappear.
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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by akhatri_aus on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:53PM (#9589516)
Dropbox doesn't use S3 anymore. They did initially. That being said S3 is a pretty good solution.
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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by kooshball on Friday May 22, 2015 @01:15PM (#9589682)
What do they use now?
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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by toomuchtodo on Friday May 22, 2015 @10:29PM (#9591790)
Possibly OpenStack's Swift. Its API-compliantish with S3.
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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by storer on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:24PM (#9589289)
Just because Dropbox uses S3 right now doesn't mean they always will. If S3 goes down, Dropbox will probably just use something else.
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Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo... by danso on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:29PM (#9589328)
Honestly curious...what's your knowledge of the company named Amazon? That is, how much smaller do you think Amazon is (by any metric, market cap, revenue, size of engineering operations) compared to Dropbox?
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