This sucks. I have about 3TB in there, which is a money loser for them in 2016, and probably a money maker by 2018. That seems like a reasonable loss leader arrangement to me.
Instead, I need to find a new offsite backup solution ASAP.
Every single time i have trusted a consumer cloud service I have been burned. Grr
You've gotten burned by consumer cloud services, but there is an easy solution: before using the service, ask yourself "is this business charging enough money to run the service at a profit?"
Services like S3, Glacier, and B2 have sensible business models so you can count on them being there tomorrow.
"Unlimited" makes no financial sense because it will be abused, and one by one the unlimited services have ceased to exist. BackBlaze is still unlimited because they are careful to limit the promise to drives powered up and attached to your computer and require you to use their own client.
I did, and concluded it was sustainable for my use case. Apparently I was off by a factor of 4. Each time a consumer cloud service has burnt me, it has been for a different reason (security, privacy, and reliability were some other reasons in the past)
Instead, I need to find a new offsite backup solution ASAP.
Every single time i have trusted a consumer cloud service I have been burned. Grr