I could be bind. But where do you guys see anything beyond 10GB plans with Blomp?
Create free account first - then you will see all options.
Ok, found the message.
50TB Plan: This plan is already available in your dashboard for just $45.95.
100TB plan - $99.99
250TB plan - $249.99
500TB plan - $499.99
I generally dont like shit I have to signup first to be able to see offerings.
But thanks for the info.
Are we talking about blomp here? As I see:
### 100 TB Plan
##### $299.97 / 3 MONTH
##### $1139.89 / 1 YEAR
EDIT: ok it is per 3 month - $99 per month indeed
I think usual concerns apply - pricing is very good - on the edge of too good to be true, company is secret (no address etc.), does not accept credit card (paypal only) etc...... I would be very careful with data I care about
I dont understand it anyway. Who would want to enter this market? The only ways you can make money there is either have sustainable prices which excludes private consumers or sell additional (enterprise grade) services, which again excludes almost all consumers.
There is market so there will be suppliers. water/electricity providers also do not do anything sexy.
There is money to be made for sure in storage space. But only time will tell who will survive:)
IMO it is actually very easy space to start but not everybody knows how to scale things up - there will be victims of success for sure.
afaik jottacloud only reduces upload speed not download. They will still likely terminate accounts using tens of terabytes of storage.
jottacloud has history of corrupting stored files... there are some threads on this forum. So it is no go for me.
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Blomp is owned by Ai.Net (Who owns their DC), address is listed on their Terms.
11700 Montgomery Rd
Beltsville, MD 20705
PayPal subscription payments go to "AiNET Corp"
AI.net support portal has a Blomp option
AiNET - Support Portal
AiNet YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klnAFs3H3bw
Also, if you have access to the forums, there is an alternate server URL that is ***.ai.net
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BTW - anybody made it to work with rclone?
In their FAQ they say:
Blomp doesn't require you to use our cloud storage software -- even though we think its fast, secure, and easy to use. You can use any compatible software you'd like! Since Blomp uses a state of the art object storage system, you can use software written for OpenStack, S3 or others.
But I can not find anywhere S3 credentials.
If they support S3 I would dump my security cameras feeds there. I can risk this. And it is always beautiful test for people claiming unlimited bandwidth etc.
The Swift integration works, with their current rclone beta. v1.67.0-beta.7776.71d1a8c14.fix-swift-blomp
From what I could read, their S3 integration was a pipe-dream, that has not come to fruition.
The only thing the beta fixes, from my understanding, is a file size issue beyond 5GB.
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Ta.
It is not merged to beta master branch yet - I will try when it is.
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This is something very positive. Yet another established company trying to squeeze some money from their infrastructure (similarly like iDrive) - this can work so gives me some level of trust that it is some log term solution. Their service atm feels a bit beta but I am happy to see this pricing level becoming reality. They are even more aggressive than I thought is sustainable (but only based on napkin calculations and lack of info about wholesale prices so not 100% educated guess). $1/TB/month for hot storage - beautiful. It is the same as AWS Deep Glacier. And Glacier with all their mega complicated charges overall is only cheap in special cases.
I wish them success:)
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Thanks for the additional details, @Turner. One question: why did they try for S3 before finally deciding on/implementing Swift? I know S3 is more or less like a 'industry standard' (scare quotes), but is it so superior to Swift as to justify the effort?
I believe it's more of, started with OpenStack Swift, and couldn't get S3 working additionally. There's some chat in their forums about it.
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And can be ruinously expensive if you even need access to that data, making it a kind of WORNPF (Write Once, Read Never, Pay Forever 
) storage -- that's what has kept me from it since day 1.
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Like unlimited plans, once word gets around and people combining with unions perhaps they will work around that some how.
I have not played with unions in rclone. I think I will read up and have a play around.
So, I came across this little hidden gem today;
https://clients.servarica.com/store/unlimited-storage-offer-plan
Starting in May of this year, they will offer a 1gbps unlimited traffic option for $10/mo. Its not "unlimited" at the start, but your get daily GB added onto your storage. Stick with it awhile and you will amass something worthwhile, and the cost doesnt go up either.
I think it is pure rip off dressed in some opaque pricing model. Some people simply love "great deal" labels.
Their most expensive plan $50/month (so the cheapest per TB) - you start with 8TB and it increases 15GB/day - 5.5 TB per year.
For $600 per year I can get iDrive 20 TB from day one (+ for first year I will only pay $300) when with this service I will have to wait 2 years + - paying $600 every year.... So for 3 years these guys can actually use iDrive and make money from people chasing deals:) I do not want to do all maths now but less or more in 3 years they will charge you $1800 - and their cost buying the same storage you could buy will be half. Genius. They can run all business with one server - payments and users management. No need to pay for storage as they can use somebody else.
Sure if you stick with them for 10 years you will win. But 10 years in this space is eternity.... nothing will be the same (including pricing) in few years.
Any complicated pricing usually hides some tricks:)
I only see a $15/month option as the cheapest. 3GB/day increase is 1TB every 2.7 years. Not particularly good I think.