{"id":7791,"date":"2020-01-07T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=7791"},"modified":"2020-01-07T15:56:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:56:05","slug":"new-comment-on-reddit-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=7791","title":{"rendered":"New comment on reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"md\">\n<p>BLUF: no, I wouldn&#39;t use this service &#8211; the various and sundry cloud backup offerings (from personal to business to enterprise) are just way too good<\/p>\n<p>What you&#39;re describing could&#39;ve been a decent business idea 10-20 years ago: indeed, Iron Mountain offered (offers?) more-or-less exactly what you&#39;re describing &#8230; though businesses would usually pay for the media themselves, and &quot;merely&quot; pay Iron Mountain for storage of said media<\/p>\n<p>But in an era of ubiquitous, cheap, always-on, multiplibacked-up cloud vendors &#8230; this is an anacronistic offering.<\/p>\n<p>How would you compete on price, convenience, and speed when you can pay Dropbox $10\/mo for 2TB? Or Apple $10\/mo for 2TB? Or Backblaze $6\/mo for &quot;unlimited&quot; storage? Or Hetzner \u20ac10\/mo for 2TB? Or any of myriad other providers?<\/p>\n<p>You <em>can<\/em> compete in online or offline storage &#8211; but you need to have a <strong><em>really<\/em><\/strong> solidly-differentiated offering to compete against The Big Boys\u2122<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>January 07, 2020 at 10:52AM<br \/>\nvia reddit https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DataHoarder\/comments\/elalim\/cold_storage_as_a_service\/fdgzxth?utm_source=ifttt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF: no, I wouldn&#39;t use this service &#8211; the various and sundry cloud backup offerings (from personal to business to enterprise) are just way too good What you&#39;re describing could&#39;ve been a decent business idea 10-20 years ago: indeed, Iron Mountain offered (offers?) more-or-less exactly what you&#39;re describing &#8230; though businesses would usually pay for &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=7791\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New comment on reddit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[972],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7792,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7791"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=7791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}