Megafrost - a controversial backup service

[Megafrost]

I created Megafrost because I didn't want to continue paying extortionate prices to keep a backup of my images and videos. For instance, Google Drive charges $20/year for 100GB but that is way more than what it actually costs. Google Cloud offers cheaper storage to businesses: Archive Storage costs $1.44/year for 100GB!

So I just made an Android app that wraps that Archive Storage and integrates with Google Pay. The complexity of Google Cloud is gone and any person can now take advantage of its low pricing.

The only catch is that once you need to restore any image or video, you have to pay for that separatelly. This is because Google Cloud charges for downloading traffic (not for uploading). But it's not really a problem because the gallery of the average user fits in the storage of a modern phones so you will only have to restore in case of disaster.

What are your thoughts? Would you be happy with this pricing model?

I you want to join the closed beta, please email me at info@megafrost.cloud

 

[mustang7757]

Welcome to AC!
So what's the charge to download 100gb from the cloud storage? And this uses Google's cloud storage from what I'm understanding? How safe is it for users compared to Google's?

 

[Megafrost]

It costs nearly $20 to restore 100GB. But you will only have to do that if your device gets stolen or destroyed, so hopefully not often. Also, you don't have to restore the whole thing, you can do partial restores as you need them (e.g. let's restore the pictures of the trip to Japan).

Yes, it uses Google Cloud Storage. In terms of data availability and durability, Google Cloud has extremelly good guarantees (99.999999999% annual durability). In terms of privacy, Megafrost offers client-side encryption so that nobody, even ourselves, can see your content (but don't forget your password or it won't be possible to access your media again).

 

[mustang7757]

Awesome
Thanks for the information and good luck with your app.