Read the linked form post and marketing material. It looks exactly like current IX_Storj integration, but cost 25% more (assuming it’s billed per GB, and not in $5 increments, which would be even more obnoxious). (Yea, no egress fees, but for the stated purpose — backup — egress fees are irrelevant)
What’s the point? Another marketing stunt to raise awareness? What am I missing?
How is it different from configuring s3 parameters in any existing TrueNAS and configuring cloud sync (rclone) and why would I, a customer, want to pay 25% more for the same thing? What’s the benefit here?
You mean Restic with rclone as transport? Does not restic support S3 natively?
How does one-time setup justify ongoing 25% higher cost?
I.e. why should I absorb the ongoing price hike, as opposed to configuring restic (or another backup tool, that actually suppprts storj natively without s3) myself, and as an extra bonus not be locked in into “special” IX bucket?
I’m trying (and failing) to understand the value proposition here. Looks like worse, more limited solution for more money and less flexibility.
I wouldn’t say anything about costs, I simple do not know.
But restic cannot work with S3 directly as far as I know, it requires rclone.
I know that there are special deals for IX+Storj accounts, like a Starter Package and this one to pay less for the same usage, so I believe it’s up on you to decide, would you need this promo or not.
I asked the team to give more details though, but usually these promotions quite useful, at least this is what I heard from the customers.
You would have to ask TrueNAS. It is their pricing. They believe they can make this work.
You are simply the wrong customer. TrueNAS doesn’t compete with our standard pricing. They offer service to customers that would otherwise pay the full pricing of aws and other services like that.
I would also expect our pricing to increase at some point. But thats a discussion for another day I guess.
The public network also contains all the geofencing groups that still upload to the public network.
So a better rule would be if it is not called select it goes to the public network. (At least for now. Sometime in the future we might also see some private networks. Not sure what they will be called.)
Different risk profile. Consider the following: disaster happens, and your NAS box fails. Now you have to pay not just for a new NAS box, but also the price to download all data, which in some cases might be comparable to the NAS box itself. Here you hedge the risk by paying more on a regular basis, and this is easier to plan than for a disaster.
On top of that, you get a proper tool for backups, as opposed to just a raw S3 bucket to which you still need to set up the backup itself. Another risk hedge—this time based on the fact that the NAS user may not have full understanding how things work, and not have the time to learn, and so in a critical situation, hopefully recovery will be simpler. That it is easy to you when at leisure, doesn’t matter, any sysadmin in a critical situation will gladly accept the help of a proper user interface of data recovery, because NAS is likely not the only thing they need to recover!
The small/medium businesses I know would gladly pay for both.