Well, it depends on whether paying double for traffic is cheaper than paying for storage, isn’t it? It at least depends on usage (upload, store for a year, delete — cost of traffic irrelevant here), and we don’t have actual numbers so this is all speculation:
- it’s either already cheaper on average
- Or the plan is to migrate large or most customers to native or self hosted gateways eventually, making this cheaper on average.
Those customers that require high throughput would be interested in using native anyway. Storj still has an advantage of being able to sustain very high throughput. Unlike this silly Backblaze that has nothing — no performance, no reliability, no integrity, no profits, just a horde of fanboys.
Those that don’t — can keep using hosted gateway.