I'm working on a bootstrapped startup and have a large dataset (500 GB) that I'm trying to find an affordable way to store online. At this point I am trying to put together a basic prototype. Does anyone have suggestions for cheap online storage?
Our company is using Azure Table Storage - <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing</a> - $0.15/mo
It's great if you can live with it not being relational.<p>SQL Azure is their 'SQL Server in the cloud' and is a bit more. But the sharding possibilities are great. You can programmatically turn on/off db instances on demand.
We'd need more info about what you plan to do with it, but Amazon should have what you're looking for (<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/</a>). If it needs to be in a relational database, try Amazon RDS (<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/rds/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/rds/</a>), where you can pick from 5GB to 1TB of storage.