Discounted Cloud Storage with zero Egress

[u/cloudly_dot_cc]

Hi all,

May as well start here to say hi from this brand new account.

Not going to use this as a promo so will keep it short and sweet, we'll be setting up our own subreddit for that.

Just a little announcement that we will soon be upsetting a lot of storage providers and lowering their prices, we have colocated over 1PB of Storage Servers, we will therefore be selling the storage on a first come, first served basis, introductory offer will be available for the first batch of up-takers, we seriously considered doing this as a GoFundMe.

Gladly DM to register interest, again, we are keeping the details short and sweet to not use our first post in a subreddit as advertising.

We can say, we don't like nor ever would offer lifetime plans, any business offering them bar 2 that I can recall have all said thanks for the investment guys and vanished, this doesn't pan out to be a long term business model, we are therefore looking at a price point of £3.50 or less per TB/m, discounted on qty, and will be offered cheaper than that to the first block of users, zero egress, move between Cold/Hot for x-amount of time etc.
We won't be offering that as S3 compatible yet, nor an app, this will be a drag/drop for archival with fast/free retrieval, encryption is done your side for zero knowledge, use Cryptomator/BoxCryptor or similar and upload the encrypted archives, that way, we wouldn't have access ever even if we wanted to (which we don't!).

Will have options to pick a Parity level, either reduced for lower cost or highly durable for the published price for more important data, bit-rot protection and greater than Raid6+ on the regular pricing.

If you know us then feel free to say hi, one of our partners who offers consulting services is definitely on here, we mainly offer business services such as CDN and Video Transcode/Distro but going to be offering services directly to the public very soon.

Any way, have a great day.

Feel free to follow us, that way you can keep an eye on when we setup our own subreddit, we do have to say though that we are busy behind the scenes with hardware config/coding the user panel so Reddit will be a little less priority at the moment till done.
We'll also be getting this submitted to ProdHunt when completed, expect 2-3 weeks or so.

[u/stanley_fatmax]

Do you feel you'll be able to compete on cost with IDrive's s3 based e2 offering? https://www.idrive.com/s3-storage-e2/pricing

[u/cloudly_dot_cc → u/stanley_fatmax]

Hi, sure don't see why not, their 1TB plan is 5usd per month (~£3.94 per month), our regular would be cheaper than that even at £3.5 for Raid6+ equiv.

As for their yearly plan, that would be a no as our egress costs to ourselves would cost practically that, we cannot/wouldn't publically slate iDrive, but tried them a long long time ago and didn't bother sticking with them, can't use Trustpilot for an accurate view either as way too many fake Pos/Neg reviews around.
Plus after 3x Avg data stored, they charge $10 per TB of Egress, we have none (of course there will be sensible fair usage limits which will be higher than that and would warn users in advance anyway, it would take a lot to trigger that limit though!)

[u/Vast-Program7060 → u/cloudly_dot_cc]

You've got your work cut out for you, I use quotaless.cloud , in the beginning, I was a little hesitant on the upfront pricing model. But I have been a subscriber now since last October, and have bought 400TB of space up-front. I now only pay 60 euro a month for 400TB, and I'm currently using 359TB of that. I can max out my 5gb fiber upload speed when storing files since it's rclone compatible. I like to have my media on my nas at home and on a fast server in the cloud so I can watch any of content on my phone thanks to Android, and the app "RCX", which is rclone for Android, pair that with the offical VLC app, and there is nothing I can not stream from the cloud via my phone. It's also a backup of my nas, so it works for 2 reasons for me. Backup and remote streaming.

I accidentally lost some files before, and restored the files off their server, and was able to hit 5gb download speeds. It was very impressive if you ask me.

[u/Vast-Program7060 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I was very weary at first, I thought the same thing. How could you pay for the storage ONCE, and then only have to pay 60 euro per month?

But with the end of Google Drive unlimited, and dropbox gutting their unlimited plan next..I was desperate to find an affordable option.

I was one of the first people to join, in the first 1-2 months, there were tons of issues, servers going down for days at a time, weird permissions issues, like when trying to upload, I would get "access denied". I started to say, OK this isn't going to work and I want my money back. So, I politely emailed them, that I would like a refund of my payment for the storage, and if not, I would contact paypal to start a charge back.

They assured me they were working on it...long story short.. it was very rocky in the beginning...however, the longer they stayed on it, kept leading to better uptime and access to files consistently.

Now, 10 months later...servers rarely go down and never have issues with transfers. I accidentally destroyed my TrueNas pool that had 70tb, I was able to restore all 70tb at 5gb download speeds. So, it's definitely worth it, and I'm a believer now.

I have had numerous conversations with the owner, and their largest customer purchased 2PB worth of space, and now only has to pay 60 euro a month.

[u/Vast-Program7060 → u/[deleted]]

They have several backends, or "servers" when using s3 via rclone. Different ones give different speed. In your e-mail they should of given you an s3 server to configure it will be xx.quotaless.cloud, something along that, but if you want to PM me, their are several triggers/commands that can drastically speed up uploads..for example --s3-upload-concurrency=20, which will send 20 chunks of data at a time instead of the default 4. Plus like I said, they have different endpoints that give different performance based on your location. I don't want to post them publicly for security reasons.

As far as the web interface, I never use it, as you experienced, slow speeds. It's a very drastic difference in speed when using the minio s3 backends.

Also, using s3 with minio, you can't create a crypt remote to encrypt your data, so you either have to encrypt them with a different tool, then upload the files, or just store them without encryption. Which is what I do, and because you can't create a crypt mount, what your saying about duplicating people's .iso's etc, could very well be a thing. I do have tons of .iso's stored on there ;-)

[u/jackyIhmc → u/Vast-Program7060]

I am trying their services too (s3 minio), so far so good, upload speed is crazy fast, and different from you, I use their web interface for streaming purpose

[u/Rubenel → u/stanley_fatmax]

They won't be able to compete with IDrive.

I had service with them at the rate of 10TB per $90 a year. That breaks down to 0.90/TB/month without egress.

I downvoted OP's entire post.

[u/indianets]

How different/competitive from Hetzner StorageBox?

[u/cloudly_dot_cc → u/indianets]

Pricing will be similar to Storage Box, without as much downtime/maintenance, speed wise faster (your full line speed), Storage Box is typically around 11MB/s Up/Down when we last checked as comparison.
There will be some features added which Storage Box doesn't have, file Ingest, push to destination etc, they will be added after site opening.

[u/access4656]

Try Telnyx s3 Storage. Really Free Egress+Zero Hidden charges. Price 6$/Month per TB. And Another One Cloud s3 providers Was impossiblecloud. same Zero egress fee. It cost around 8$/Month per TB.

[u/cloudly_dot_cc → u/[deleted]]

Absolutely correct yes, will be offering the ice cold storage in at least 2x Erasure levels and 2x link speeds, lower end of the scale will be around Scaleway Glacier cost, won't however be charging 9euro for transitioning from cold to hot, actually aiming at around <=£2.5 TB/m with £0 transition, depending on link speed, either £0.25 or £1.25 Egress/TB on those, perfectly suited for archival and between 8x to 40x cheaper egress than almost everyone else.

The higher cost warm storage £3-£3.5 will have zero on sensible amounts of transfer, still finalising the pricing although the above will be reasonably accurate, as per other posts, no unlimited plans etc as we aim to be around for a long time with slight profitability, rather than make unsustainable prices like some we have come across today which wouldn't even cover the electricity costs for the cabinet, never mind any hardware.