Amazon today announced unlimited cloud storage with Amazon Cloud Drive—two new storage plans for customers to securely store their existing content collections and automatically upload endless amounts

I guess it's because Xen is more common in bigger cloud deployments like OnApp stuff or Amazon. I think RackSpace too? But yea, I don't see Xen at all.

You can find very portable bus powered 2 terabyte external drives on Amazon (in the US) for under $100 each. Here is an example: Western Digital My Passport Ultra 2 TB Portable Hard Drive, Black - $93

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@Nyr why not a 3TB USB HDD. You can carry it with you to your new residence whenever you decide to move. And maybe a second copy to Amazon Glacier, if the data is important.

Depending on when and how often you need to access the data, something like Amazon Glacier is very cheap. Google has something similar, I believe they're now better on price and quicker availabiity of

KeyCDN/Amazon Cloudfront/CDNify

Based on server logs, a lot of website crawlers seem to be hosted with Amazon.

Glacier doesn't lock your data in. It can be restored at anytime should Amazon plan to do anything stupid(increase price/bankrupt etc).

And it's not like Amazon can discontinue this service or raise prices or go bankrupt or get bought out, because certainly no such thing has ever happened in the past, not to the biggest companies in t

Glacier is one of the complexly priced Amazon product. I could go on for hours to explain how they prices it. To make it to $16/month figure,

As for amazon payments, I'll look in to it.

Just switched from a custom Amazon S3+Glacier solution to Google Cloud Nearline storage. Cheaper and more flexible to use for my purposes.

I hope you add amazon payments module in the future on your billing software ?!

Amazon Glacier is a good choice for secondary store.

I'd always use Amazon Glacier as a secondary just in case.

* If that fails, write down the slogans of amazon, ebay and cisco (last one should be easy).

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Amazon Glacier is not on-the-fly friendly.

Amazon glacier yes. DVD or tape drives will also work if you can get them for cheap, keep a copy at work or friends house.