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Our prices will aways be lower than Amazon S3, I can tell this for sure. But our main advantage is support - you can always open a ticket and get an answer on your question within 24 hours, but usually much faster.

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Presumably, Amazon gets enormous volume discounts for the disk drives that would be a main cost of running S3, and they run their business with notoriously tiny margins. It would seem nearly impossible to undercut them for the same product at the same level of service.

what about bandwidth price?

Right now it is $0.04 per GB which is 3 times cheaper than Amazon and customers with a lot of traffic will get additional discounts.

what happens if a file becomes very popular?

like a ddos or a very popular video

how many servers can transmit one file?

Each file is stored at 3 different servers at the same time. Hot files are moved to RAM automatically and will be served very fast without even touching the disks. Our tests shows that each servers group has about 500Mb/s free bandwidth capacity at this time. And it can be increased to several Tb/s in a matter of days if needed. Additional servers will be added in 2-3 days do the server group if necessary.

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