I don't buy remote hosted storage, so when I saw $12/month for 1TB I was like "whoa, that's way too cheap to be reliable". Then I looked up other services, and some are as low as $4-$5/month for "unlimited" data, with some others being significantly more expensive.
It seems to me these providers are basically a web hoster that specializes in storage, which means 24/7 support, very high uptime, capital investment in infrastructure and ongoing maintenance and planned upgrades, and technical specialization for writing and supporting custom software. Many web hosters get away with low prices by not guaranteeing data integrity and putting a premium on large amounts of storage (or simply over-selling capacity). It's very hard for me to imagine how a company can have a large number of customers, each with 1TB of highly redundant data with high service uptime and immediate support, for $12/month.
For just photos, I would buy the second or third to cheapest option and be done with it, but it still gives me the willies that these prices are so low. The prices of different providers seems almost spastic, running from $1.50 to $150 for a terabyte of backup. Unless there's very good reasons for the variance in price, something seems fishy.
It seems to me these providers are basically a web hoster that specializes in storage, which means 24/7 support, very high uptime, capital investment in infrastructure and ongoing maintenance and planned upgrades, and technical specialization for writing and supporting custom software. Many web hosters get away with low prices by not guaranteeing data integrity and putting a premium on large amounts of storage (or simply over-selling capacity). It's very hard for me to imagine how a company can have a large number of customers, each with 1TB of highly redundant data with high service uptime and immediate support, for $12/month.
For just photos, I would buy the second or third to cheapest option and be done with it, but it still gives me the willies that these prices are so low. The prices of different providers seems almost spastic, running from $1.50 to $150 for a terabyte of backup. Unless there's very good reasons for the variance in price, something seems fishy.