Can anyone explain the difference between buying directly from dropbox versus using layeredonline?

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uh oh, just got an email from layeronline...

dropbox are closing them down :frowning:

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LOL, who could expect that... Seeing how much they oversold it just crazy it took that much time.

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103 users, omg

No wonder that they cancelled their space :frowning: geez

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Important Notice Regarding your Dropbox account

Last night we just got the dreaded email from Dropbox:

Hi LayerOnline,

This is a notification from Dropbox to inform you that your account has been identified as selling Dropbox Services without authorization and/or using the Services to back up, or as infrastructure for, your own cloud services.
Selling, reselling, or leasing Dropbox’s Services is against our Acceptable Use Policy and Services Agreement. Using the Services to back up, or as infrastructure for, your own cloud services is against Dropbox’s Acceptable Use Policy.
Your account will be shut down pursuant to Dropbox’s Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service or Services Agreement, as applicable. You have 30 days to remove any files from your Dropbox account that you wish to preserve. Once your account is shut down, you will lose access to all files stored in this account, and it will not be restored.
You can find more information about our policy in our Help Center. If you feel that you received this message in error, please reach out to our support team at www.dropbox.com/help.

- The Dropbox Team

It mentioned 30 days but it's likely less than two weeks, as our monthly contract ends July 24. We recommend that you move your data out before July 24. We started this journey when our Workspace users were looking for a place to migrate their data. We contacted Dropbox and they were happy to help. It has been rough since the beginning, unable to allocate space, not clear about the amount of space can be used, etc. and eventual death.

This is probably the end of unlimited cloud storage era. The only solution we see right now is to setup your own NAS, and backup using services such as CrashPlan or BackBlaze.

5,268.86 TB of 5,184.07 TB used, uploads still running.

Related: LayerOnline Kicked from DropBox