This is sort of like: "I am a business consultant, here is how other businesses do things. Do this"
There is no problem in the way the service is priced.
Its about the same way cloud services charge.
How much are you going to spend on a big AWS installation,
including bandwidth, storage and compute? You dont know?
Well knowing that to a penny is hard.
Well boo hoo. I was going to go on vacation and I dont wanna
read email when I am on a 21 day sabbatical. What happens if there is not enough money on the credit card you are charging your other cloud services too? You get email, and if you go over they stop running your stuff.. Go over even more and eventually they will just delete your stuff. That is not just your backup that is your entire platform.
I dont see the problem here. The use case is, I sign up for tarsnap, I put some money in the account and then I dont want to ever think about it again.
Do you do think with other cloud platforms? Dont you want to keep an eye on what it costs? Wouldnt that be prudent?
The same with tarsnap. You star using it, keep an eye on what it costs. Then after a while you should be able to create a projection of how much its going to cost. That to me seems like a good thing to do if you run a "serious" business.
There is no problem in the way the service is priced. Its about the same way cloud services charge. How much are you going to spend on a big AWS installation, including bandwidth, storage and compute? You dont know? Well knowing that to a penny is hard.
Well boo hoo. I was going to go on vacation and I dont wanna read email when I am on a 21 day sabbatical. What happens if there is not enough money on the credit card you are charging your other cloud services too? You get email, and if you go over they stop running your stuff.. Go over even more and eventually they will just delete your stuff. That is not just your backup that is your entire platform.
I dont see the problem here. The use case is, I sign up for tarsnap, I put some money in the account and then I dont want to ever think about it again.
Do you do think with other cloud platforms? Dont you want to keep an eye on what it costs? Wouldnt that be prudent?
The same with tarsnap. You star using it, keep an eye on what it costs. Then after a while you should be able to create a projection of how much its going to cost. That to me seems like a good thing to do if you run a "serious" business.