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David. said...

Trey, thank you also for the link to Swift's costs. I need to look at them closely but at first sight they appear to reinforce Backblaze's message that building it yourself can result in considerable savings as against commercial cloud services.

But the real message from our long-term model is that the key factor is not so much the initial cost, but how quickly the cost drops through time. Buying from a commercial cloud storage service means you are the mercy of the service's decision as to how quickly to drop prices. The history shows they don't pass the savings along to their customers.

Oct 2, 2012, 1:55:40 PM

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