We wrote a CEO page and it works
rsync.net
rsync.net
Towards the bottom it reads:
>Depending on the size, this could be as low as 7 cents per GB, per month - which is cheaper than Amazon S3.
However, after looking at both the pricing and signup page, it appears as though the lowest you can get is $0.08 per GB, and that's only if you buy 10TB of space. That's also for a SINGLE off-site location. This is the equivalent of "Reduced Redundancy Storage" at Amazon, which starts at $0.076 per GB. However, if you want to compare apples to apples, you would compare it to the 10TB pricing.
10TB Single off-site @ rsync - $9,500/yr
10TB Single off-site @ AWSs3 - $8,011/yr
10TB Multiple off-site @ rsync - $16,625/yr
10TB Multiple off-site @ AWSs3 - $10,009/yr
Every time rsync posts something on HN or Reddit, its always filled with FUD.
First, our pricing almost exactly matching S3 is not a secret - it's well understood, and by design.
Second, you'll note that the following features of a 10TB account with us are not included with S3:
- Free integration engineering (as in, a unix engineer on the phone with you)
- 24/7 hotline support - as in, xmas morning phonecalls
- two physical media shipments of any size per year
- We will sign a BAA with you
Ask your contact at Amazon what those would cost next time you talk to them. Oh wait, you've never ever talked to anyone at Amazon and you never will[1]
So you're right - it's not apples to apples.
[1] Except, of course, at AWS summit and so on, where they are very available and helpful.
So is this on-call service something all paying AWS customers can expect or only those with rapport?
(physician's husband and IT support guy)
But this seems like a great idea!
This resonates very well with the people that find us and will eventually use us, but the people that make decisions and pay us are not impressed with what they see.
So if we're not going to put up the PDF whitepapers and the product tour videos that they want to see ... how do we bridge that gap ?
That's where the CEO page comes in.
I'm a recent law graduate (- but I now work for the NSA...) researching warrant canaries (- and looking at ways to deal with these companies)
It may be a bit conspiracy-theory, but current affairs suggest it is certainly not outside the realms of possibility.
This makes _my_ job easier, thank you.
How do you know the _unique_ goals the CEO is trying to achieve in their strategy matches what's shown on your CEO page? What if your last bullet point is the only one they care about? Showing every CEO the exact same message isn't personalized, and doesn't resonate.
What works better is empowering the "recommender" to sell your company themselves, instead of just having them point their CEO to a page on your website. You can work with this person to determine what the most compelling cases are for _their_ business, and tailor the CEO message to that.
It's much more effective for building a relationship without much additional work, and it raises conversions because it's more genuine.
What we had before, however, was nothing - and this has been better.
However, I usually interpret "affordable" as a good value for whatever price (even if it is actually expensive)
Ironically, I'm the CEO here and I wouldn't want to see any of these ...
A minor nitpick if any of the rsync.net guys are reading this. The front page states "11 Years serving customers worldwide" and the top section states "Enterprise Offsite Backup Since 2001".
"it appeals to technical people that appreciate elegant solutions"
Should arguably read as "people who appreciate". "Who" is preferred over "that" or "which" when referring to people.
That work will (hopefully) enter the public domain one day. By forward-dating the copyright notice, you are attempting to fraudulently extend your limited monopoly.
Small grammar nitpick: In the last sentence of the "Cheap and risk free" section you use the word "years" twice where "year's" would be the appropriate usage.