I have many personal files and wanting make sure they are accessible for rest of my life. Please tell me a platform that can provide this solution and why I can trust it?
The issue you're forgetting to mention is the fact that physical DVD drives won't be around for more than a few more years, you then need to make sure you have one in working order on a system that can use it
If it costs me $1 to store my stuff per month on S3, and you reduce that... so what? It's so cheap it's not going to help my wallet much. This isn't like going from $100 to $2- or even $50 to $20. It's going from like $10/year to... I dunno, $4. I might as well stay on AWS.
That leaves the enterprise market, which, naturally, loves S3 100x more than the random individual, because S3 is a solid enterprise choice, and will always have the enterprise advantage, by a crushing margin.
AWS is itself hard to compete with, but of all the services you could compete with on AWS, S3 is probably the worst. So you're going up against the worst of the worst, here. I can't say it's impossible, but it's like an extra double hard market to compete in, in an already tough market.
I recently had a RAID array rebuild fail and had to restore 10 TB from cloud backups. That would've cost me $900 on S3.
Arweave has developed a new type of blockchain based on Moore’s Law of the declining cost of data storage. Users pay upfront (one time payment) for a hundred years of storage at less than a cent per megabyte, and the interest that accrues will cover the dwindling storage cost forever. More than one million pieces of data are now stored on the permaweb...
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/05/coronavirus-censorship-arw...