• bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t seen these 1 time payments work out well for cloud service companies that have monthly bills to pay.

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      1 year ago

      I know and I researched quite a bit before making the jump.

      Basically there are couple of things which make me think they won’t just shut down:

      • They’ve been around for quite a while (10 years as of now)
      • They’re betting on the ever decreasing costs of storage to manage their margin
      • They still try to sell you complementary products
      • They don’t ever have to increase your max storage unless you pay again
      • They still have monthly subscription available

      All in all, I’ve felt pretty safe using them and I’ve done the cloud provider switch once so I can do it again