JMichaelTX,
I could go for $10/year for 100 GB of storage. Any ideas how the
groups.io management would feel about that?
I've never broached the subject. Hard to guess, but among the downsides would be increasing complexity in his pricing tiers. I'd like to see it as an ¨¤ la carte add-on, where one could buy as many extra storage increments as one wants, on top of the base plan.
And, of course, it would have to be priced to break-even or profit - which would require some analysis to work out.
I'm not sure I understand the Amazon pricing,
Me either.
but the Free Tier looks like it includes somewhere between 5 GB - 65
GB. I'm fuzzy on what is total storage vs monthly bandwidth. IAC, it
looks very good!
Groups.io couldn't use the free tier, they'd have to pay for it (as they already do for file and photo storage).
The trick would be to work out the "total cost of ownership" for the extra storage, which would have to include the storage itself, any overhead costs for management and backup, and some reserve for an essentially unpredictable amount of increased bandwidth charges for uploads and downloads.
Shal
Shal Farley