Hmm excuse me, but even if its cold storage and thus cheaper to maintain, how a company with a datacenter can survive with one-time plan lifetime and no additional fees if they don’t get new customers after a period of time? Who will pay the bandwidth, the storage, electricity… Another web opportunies are doing exactly the same thing, and that’s even illegal; that’s the ponzi scheme. In fine, the new customers are paying for the first one to maintain the heart in activity. In that marketing process, they rely on their business customers to pay the bill. I wouldn’t trust “lifetime” plans (which is actually the lifetime of the company or the actual contract they could edit and break, and centralized cloud storages are about to die in longterm hopefully because its the grandpa of the Internet).
I’m curious to see how many months it will survive before that promotion disappears, and how many times they keep their engagement before it dies and customers complain. But its a promotion, its not intended to be something permanent, and it probably couldn’t be. Also, they say in their Q&A its limited to 4go file size maximum, otherwise you have to pay a “upgrade” in your account, without giving the price. That’s a bit dishonest.
Just found a bad experience in a comment to confirm the high risk of “unlimited” “lifetime” marketing things:
I lost my CrashPlan subscription with unlimited storage after they decided they only wanted business customers. In my option, it’s far better to stick with Google Drive, OneDrive or iCloud.
At least, Tardigrade is a much more solid economic-plan, and at my knowledge, they don’t hide informations about odd limitations in a Q&A or docs, like “Oh, if you download your data 10 times, it’s locked down and you’ll have to upgrade your account.” Everybody loves the upgrades you just discover after your plan-subscribing. Just kidding.