<story><title>We wrote a CEO page and it works</title><url>http://rsync.net/products/ceopage.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RKearney</author><text>So the concept of this is to create a misleading page such that the CEO of a company would be tricked into signing off on an otherwise overpriced
service?&lt;p&gt;Towards the bottom it reads:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Depending on the size, this could be as low as 7 cents per GB, per month - which is cheaper than Amazon S3.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;s only if you buy
10TB of space. That&amp;#x27;s also for a SINGLE off-site location. This is the
equivalent of &amp;quot;Reduced Redundancy Storage&amp;quot; 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.&lt;p&gt;10TB Single off-site @ rsync - $9,500&amp;#x2F;yr&lt;p&gt;10TB Single off-site @ AWSs3 - $8,011&amp;#x2F;yr&lt;p&gt;10TB Multiple off-site @ rsync - $16,625&amp;#x2F;yr&lt;p&gt;10TB Multiple off-site @ AWSs3 - $10,009&amp;#x2F;yr&lt;p&gt;Every time rsync posts something on HN or Reddit, its always filled with FUD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>A few comments ...&lt;p&gt;First, our pricing almost exactly matching S3 is not a secret - it&amp;#x27;s well understood, and by design.&lt;p&gt;Second, you&amp;#x27;ll note that the following features of a 10TB account with us are not included with S3:&lt;p&gt;- Free integration engineering (as in, a unix engineer on the phone with you)&lt;p&gt;- 24&amp;#x2F;7 hotline support - as in, xmas morning phonecalls&lt;p&gt;- two physical media shipments of any size per year&lt;p&gt;- We &lt;i&gt;will sign a BAA with you&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask your contact at Amazon what those would cost next time you talk to them.  Oh wait, you&amp;#x27;ve &lt;i&gt;never ever talked to anyone at Amazon and you never will&lt;/i&gt;[1]&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;#x27;re right - it&amp;#x27;s not apples to apples.&lt;p&gt;[1] Except, of course, at AWS summit and so on, where they are very available and helpful.</text></comment>
<story><title>We wrote a CEO page and it works</title><url>http://rsync.net/products/ceopage.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RKearney</author><text>So the concept of this is to create a misleading page such that the CEO of a company would be tricked into signing off on an otherwise overpriced
service?&lt;p&gt;Towards the bottom it reads:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Depending on the size, this could be as low as 7 cents per GB, per month - which is cheaper than Amazon S3.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;s only if you buy
10TB of space. That&amp;#x27;s also for a SINGLE off-site location. This is the
equivalent of &amp;quot;Reduced Redundancy Storage&amp;quot; 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.&lt;p&gt;10TB Single off-site @ rsync - $9,500&amp;#x2F;yr&lt;p&gt;10TB Single off-site @ AWSs3 - $8,011&amp;#x2F;yr&lt;p&gt;10TB Multiple off-site @ rsync - $16,625&amp;#x2F;yr&lt;p&gt;10TB Multiple off-site @ AWSs3 - $10,009&amp;#x2F;yr&lt;p&gt;Every time rsync posts something on HN or Reddit, its always filled with FUD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asperous</author><text>Correct me if I&amp;#x27;m wrong, but wouldn&amp;#x27;t offline backups be more like Glacier, which is 0.01GB&amp;#x2F;Month?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;glacier&amp;#x2F;pricing&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>