Well, this is interesting, the floor price of Storj is increasing tenfold to $50/month…
Yikes, that makes it all but useless for my backup needs.
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This is their way to force use of their crappy token down everyone throats. If you jump through hoops to pay with token you have no minimum fee and get extra 10% bonus.
They cannot be more transparent:
If your total usage is less than $50, you are charged $50 for that month.
Accounts paying with STORJ token are exempt from the minimum monthly fee.
This is clearly punitive.
They shall drop that crypto cosplay but they still are hoping for something.
Funny they moved all token related mumbo jumvo to a separate web site. Not to spook actual serious customers with crypto-bro vibes, only to promptly slam them with a $50 brick in the face.
I… strongly dislike that.
Will I myself pay with tokens? No. I’ve dropped storj at the time they introduced the original $5 min fee.
I still believe in the technology but their company direction I cannot agree with.
Backblaze for me in that case. Will be removing my storj footprint. A real shame.
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I would not go to Backblaze. Out of the obvious three wasabi is attractive but prepare to tolerate frequent service outages and broken api. For backup it’s tolerable. Or use Amazon or Google. Definitely not Backblaze.
I’ve been using it as a secondary off-site location for a few months, and it seems stable. What am I missing…?
Basically, this: Data Cleanup Plan - Update - #64 by arrogantrabbit - Announcements - Storj Community Forum (official) (this is my post there, to avoid retyping here)
TLDR: This is an incompetent and reckless with customer data mismanaged company that despite of that did not manage to ever turn profit…
What a pain!
I might just bite the bullet and use the Storj token…
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It’s pretty depressing that we are reduced to choosing the least bad option instead of struggling to pick among genuinely stellar alternatives. But that’s the world we have created.
I agree, but alas, I am going to compound the problem… I moved my Storj tokens into my account from previously running a storage node and will see what happens on the next billing cycle.
I will back out of using Backblaze based on what I have read in the forum thread you posted.
Hi! I’m trying to find the optimal tier from Amazon/Google that’s supported by Duplicacy.
Backup mostly configuration files, db dumps from NAS, docker files etc.
Any tips?
This looks like a very small amount of data, correct? Pick any tier whatsoever. Standard-IA for example. At any price the cost would be “few bucks”. It’s not something worth optimizing.
If you had tens of terabytes then sure, you could compartmentalize; e.g. immutable data into glacier and mutable with duplicacy to hot storage.
Or continue using storj. Send a bunch of money to account via tokens once a year. It has proven it works, once a year inconvenience of buying and sending tokens may be less hassle than uprooting the whole setup.
I’m doing the latter. I added a bunch of storj to my account, enough to see me through a couple of years. Challenge being if I forget my balance, run short and get charged $50 for $3 worth of storage…
Yes, the bucket is like 2GB total.
But what if my demand goes high? Better question would be, how can I recognize if a tier of Amazon or Google or else is compatible with Duplicacy? I’m missing that piece of information.
Thank you again!
Any tier of google is compatible, and every tier except Glacier of amazon is also compatible.
At under 1000 GB you can pick any. If /when you need significantly more space - read description of each tier and see which is optimal for your access pattern. They differ by early deletion/minimum duration, cost of egress vs cost of storage. For backup tiers with low storage cost, high minimum duration and high egress cost are appropriate.
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If I’m not wrong Amazon standard IA has a minimum of 30 days for files, would this be a problem if chunks are pruned?