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Bandwidth costs would probably kill us TBH. Ultimately we will have 20,000 clients connecting at least 3 times a week and uploading once a fortnight. It adds up to about 500TB of new data a year.

S3 is great for us atm but the work to encrypt it is too much because the cost doesnt scale for us long term. Potentially within a couple of years we will be spending 1/2 a million on bandwith and 1/2 a million on storage - which will continue upwards :)

Were facing the Google model: commodity hardware on a cheap T1 connection :)




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