Ask HN: Cloud storage without monthly fee per GB?

1 points by treelovinhippie 14y ago ↗ HN

I'm looking into the costs for an upcoming startup that requires cloud hosting.

The problem is that each user will need to upload a set amount of 1.6GB of data per month (no more, no less). Calculating on Amazon S3 pricing after 4 years, it will have cost $237 to host only 80GB of data per user.

The data is continually aggregating so the monthly pricing model per GB is not a good idea.

Does anyone know of a reliable cloud host provider with API that charges per GB (but not per GB per month)?

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pbnjay 14y ago ↗

Ditch the cloud and go "old-school" - a self-hosted or managed SAN/NAS. Rackspace has 'em for example: http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/services/storage/

treelovinhippie 14y ago ↗

Apparently their pricing is $0.10 per GB per month, so the same issue. The only other option they gave is going dedicated but we really want to avoiding having to manage a dedicated server.