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>Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price.

And yet I can't find a cheap host for 2-4TB that's not like $10/month or so... even with Glacier it's $16/4TB/month...

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KS-3 Server - Atom N2800 - 4GB DDR3 1066 MHz - 2TB SATA $9.99/month

https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/order/kimsufi.xml?reference=18...

No RAID, but it's in your desired price range.

Yep, it's possible with a dedicated or vps with 4TB or more, but this doesn't suit my use case (backup).

I want the storage replicated geo-redunduntly backed-up and safer, Glacier/Backblaze/etc-style, not just lost whenever someone breaks into the server or there's a hardware issue at the hosting company, etc. Basically "upload and forget"...

Same way, I can't find any good Squarespace/Ghost/Wordpress.com style service where I can run 3-4 sites that's not like $10/month per site or so...

I'd appreciate a service that charges you based on actual traffic load, not mere website count/custom domain, and that is "post content and forget".

Maybe https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/#three-info ?

Supposedly $5.99/TB/Month

Something like that functionality-wise, but it's still more than Glacier ($16 vs $22 for ~4TB).

No egress charges, so it's cheaper than Glacier for some use cases.

That's true. I want more of a "store and very rarely retrieve" however, and there's no sub-$10/month service for 2-3TB yet.

Are there any options like these with redundancy built into the storage?

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