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Show HN: CloudBuddy – Pay less for online storage

11 pointsby CloudBuddyover 7 years ago

8 comments

jlgaddisover 7 years ago
Hosted on a Comcast cable business account?<p>That&#x27;s not reassuring as far as availability goes.<p><i>Updated:</i> No info on the company, domain registration is private, registered agent for the corporation is one of those &quot;registered agent services&quot; that lets the owner(s) hide their identity, and the physical address listed (<i>edit:</i> on their contact page) is a post office.<p>Yeah, pretty sure I&#x27;m not uploading any files to you. Nice try, though; you get points for the attempt.
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mtmailover 7 years ago
I&#x27;d worry it attracts the lower end of storage needs, those users in the $1-$3&#x2F;month range, who wouldn&#x27;t want to sign up to Dropbox or OneDrive ($7&#x2F;month). Spending 15 minutes on a support email can already void profits, you wouldn&#x27;t have much budget for customer acquisition, and it&#x27;s hard to raise prices when the main selling point seems to be the low price.
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nkkollawover 7 years ago
Why not, but if you target devs and people in the IT field, they can do that themselves.<p>I would have signed up for a trial if you had some sort of app that made it easier to transfer files. I saw the instructions, and they&#x27;re a pain. As a developer, I have 3TB of unused storage from a few OVH servers—some of it with automatic failover based on GlusterFS: I can just mount that and copy files via the Finder or terminal.<p>I guess I don&#x27;t get it.
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gubbyover 7 years ago
&quot;We send you a email to let you know that we are having difficulty charging your credit card. The email will also let you know that you have one week to resolve the issue [...]. If for some reason we are unable to charge your credit card within that time, your account (including all of your files) will be deleted.&quot;<p>One week!
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VoidWhispererover 7 years ago
I&#x27;m confused on how you think this is &#x27;less&#x27;. Onedrive is $6.99 a month for what you would charge $100 for.
chrislomaxover 7 years ago
How does this beat Backblaze? I pay $5 a month and I’ve no data caps?<p>I know I can’t start at a dollar but I can’t imagine many people backing up 0-10gb a month and that’s it
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jlgaddisover 7 years ago
Two weeks from now: &quot;CloudBuddy drops first month free due to rampant abuse&quot;
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dorfsmayover 7 years ago
sftp only?