If a user with an unlimited consumer-grade plan is backing up their business servers or running a homegrown streaming video service, the provider should be able to shut that down. One particularly messy issue for storage providers is that they can’t weed out legitimate high-volume uses from those that violate their terms of service. Unlimited is supposed to mean unlimited, and any attempts to discourage that kind of use looks like a betrayal. But it’s also not a problem that’s easily solved. “The abusers thing, it’s a loaded word, and it bears asking questions around exactly what constitutes abuse,” he says.īesides, explanation never sits well with users, as it suggests they’re being punished for the actions of a few.
Taptich now admits that it’s a tricky problem to address. Bitcasa blamed the demise of unlimited on “the growing number of suspected abusers” along with weak demand from everyone else. Microsoft, for instance, noted that some users were exceeding 75TB of storage, or 14,000 times the average. Instead, they point a finger at the heaviest users for making the service unsustainable.
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When cloud storage providers give up on unlimited, they tend to avoid taking the full blame. It’s anybody’s guess what the next technological leap might be, but providers of unlimited storage would be wise to have contingency plans in place. Around the time Mozy switched to tiered storage plans, usage was tripling or quadrupling on a yearly basis, compared to 15% or 20% yearly growth in Mozy’s early days. Â You can also clear your cache here if you feel that’s necessary.“Just the amount of information that consumers were accumulating and storing skyrocketed,” says Dave Robinson, Mozy’s head of marketing. Â Given that I hardly have any data in Bitcasa right now, I’ll just set that to 5GB for now. Â I went into mine and it was set to 26GB. :)īitcasa does have a preference setting for your Cache. I bet that will make my important files backup more regularly now. Â Well, I don’t think I need any of that backed up all the time by Crashplan, so… Â I just did this in my exclusions: Â I bet that’s why my cache grew so large. I just realized I had their Sample Videos in my Bitcasa folders. Â And Bitcasa, they’ve got about 11GB in just their Cache folder. Looking into this, I don’t think I need ANY of that stuff in a regular backup.
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Oh, wow! Â This Cache folder is huge! Â (I am on a Mac BTW) Â I have a Library/Caches folder that’s huge! What’s this? Â Steamapps/common folder is huge! Â Oh wait, I already excluded that from backup. Â No need to backup those docs when I can just reinstall them…. Â Why do I have so much more data than normal? Â This morning I noticed that it had about 14GB more to backup! Â On my internet connection’s slow upload speed, that will take a few days to catch up. Â I use Crashplan as my main backup software. Â One thing, however, did catch my attention. Its pretty cool! Â I haven’t done too much with it yet, so I don’t want to comment on any of its pros or cons just yet. I am testing out the Beta of Bitcasa right now. Main Backup tagged Backup / Bitcasa / Cloud / CrashPlan / Documents / Mac by Greg
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