Paying for Cloud Storage is Stupid [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsM6b5yix0U

by ksec • 2 years ago

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Paying for Cloud storage lets you: - Not have to deal with all the hassle that he had to deal with in this video - Not spend all this time installing, debugging and maintaining this config - Have redondancy in multiple data centers reducing considerably your risk of hardware failure

If you want a cheaper option than Google drive, maybe look for cold storage? Or s3 buckets which will probably cost much less than his hardware alone

jvanderbot5• 2 years ago

I stuck a small amount of money into a separate checking account, pointed my AWS account to it, and now I'm fairly sure my static website in s3 will outlive my grandkids.

CharlesW2• 2 years ago

How do you handle domain name renewal limits?

figassis2• 2 years ago

Make sure you don’t get DDoS’d

bennyhill• 2 years ago

A personal account? I think any bank account has to be closed out in the process of processing an estate.

perryizgr82• 2 years ago

I agree with the notion that cloud storage (Google drive, one drive, Dropbox) are simply too costly to use as your archive for photos and videos. UHD video on my phone takes up around 700 MB per minute. A single photo is around 5 MB. In about 3-4 years of normal usage you will blow past the 2 TB max that these services offer.

Then what will you do? Pay even more? It's an endless thing. It's not sustainable if you care about money at all. What you need is a combo of local storage (4 TB drives in RAID) and have a full archive backup in glacier or something.

Costs will be in check, and best of all no recurring cost just to keep your data saved. And you still have a proper backup if need arises.

shallmn• 2 years ago

So you will not have recurring costs hosting your own system? No hard drive replacements, upgrades, board replacements, wholesale technology upgrades when different networking or security protocols come along, capacity upgrades, and your time and energy? For most people, paying a small amount per year to place this burden on someone else is money well spent.

perryizgr82• 2 years ago

I'm assuming that you already have part of the infrastructure at home for other purposes (a network, a gaming PC, a media server, etc.). All that can also utilise the same NAS.

I guess if you feel paying for terabytes of Google drive is not much of an expense more power to you. It's certainly fire and forget. I find it too expensive, and irritating to keep paying for all the historical data I've generated. When my RAID is about to reach capacity, I buy a couple of 4 TB drives and that's it. No subscription to worry about.

supriyo-biswas• 2 years ago

IIRC LTT suffered a data loss incident on a storage cluster, and they rely on big-ass RAID clusters which are known for the long recovery times.

These tradeoffs may be fine for a Youtube channel, but are completely unacceptable for any other business, and it could have other consequences, such as fines if they are unable to pull up compliance records mandated by law.

They can simply negotiate with other cheaper providers such as Backblaze and Wasabi.

DannyWebbie• 2 years ago

ZFS misconfiguration IIRC. My understanding is that they are knowingly keeping the raw project files of finished projects on a relatively weak setup because they don't believe the data to be important and don't want to pay a lot to keep it. Actually important data is likely handled with a bit more care.

Paying for Cloud Storage is Stupid [video]

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