Ask HN: customer backups delivered on the cheap?

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It is cool when users can get DVD backups mailed to them every so often, for example: http://www.smugmug.com/help/backups

But how do I offer this when we're in colocation or slicehost etc.? Can't be driving to the colocation center every time someone wants a DVD... any creative solution?

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At the prices SmugMug is charging, bandwidth cost is negligible. Just download the data to your office and burn it.

Yeah, I guess I could make the price outrageous like theirs (whatever it took to justify it) and go from there. If it got popular (or if requests piled up with "I'd use that if only it were cheaper") I could come up with a better solution.

e.g. just a few a month would pay for a dedicated DSL line for that.

If DVD backups mailed every month could be cheap enough to actually subscribe to, it would be an awesome add-on to some of these SaaS sites (including the one I'm building).

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