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For all the great ingestion capabilities of rsync.net, their pricing still isn't nearly competitive with any of the cloud storage services.

Could someone from rsync.net explain why? Am I looking at rsync.net the wrong way? Is it meant to serve a different use case?

The front page of the website says "Cloud Storage for Offsite Backups" but the pricing shows that it costs 8-20c/month depending on usage. Meanwhile GCS Nearline and Amazon Glacier (also offsite backup products) are at 1c/GB and even their regular storage is at ~3c.

Sell me. What does rsync.net offer me that justifies an 8x-20x price bump?