flurian

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   by flurian 13y ago

   have you considered that maybe when dropbox SREs get paged they get busy fixing the site, not updating the status page?
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   by flurian 14y ago

   Consider doing the math on how many paid users need to exist to subsidize each free user. Suppose each free user uses, say, 20% of their space and does every single available promotion, yielding 20GB of space. This means each free user uses
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   by flurian 14y ago

   It is cheaper to store 100GB in Dropbox than to store your own 100GB in S3. It would cost $12.50 plus transfer costs to use S3. It costs $9.99 and no transfer costs (besides your own net access) to use Dropbox. Dropbox is storing a lot more
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   by flurian 14y ago

   That's not a solution, it's a design tradeoff. Dropbox's servers are the "truth", and the software's clear goal is to get a copy on the servers. There are many reasons for this--weird conflicts, inconsistencies, and so on--that are much har