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(0 experience in offsite backups so apologies if this question seems a bit dumb)

I'm confused - can this be used as a simple cloud storage platform, or are there limits on how often you can upload/download data? If I can SSH into it at any time, why not use this over other storage providers?

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No limits. The main reason you'd not use this over other storage providers is probably the price. For the money you pay, you'd really only use this for data you can't afford to lose, and won't constantly monitor for corruption yourself – i.e. backups.

is it really that expensive? I pay like $100 per year for 400GB, which includes geo redundency.

Access speeds up and down are fast, I can up or download whenever and how often I like, and with winscp it's basically just a mounted fs I can use. Oh and support is great, the few times I've had questions they have responded in detail within a few hours.

Do they really provide a Unix engineer to help you with your setup / write scripts ... ?

Not GP. “rsync”, the HN user who’s the founder of rsync.net, has commented here that everybody who works for them is a Unix engineer and knows the technology quite well. Based on past comments (you can look for comments by rsync on hn.algolia.com), I’m sure they’d help with setup. But custom scripts…I’m not sure. Maybe that depends on the complexity.

According to their pricing page there is a 680GB minimum, which is ~$120/year.

They do snapshotting on your behalf, so all you need to do is rsync.

Also bandwidth is free in and out which is far better than some pricey ones.

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