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No additional space on Business Advanced
Dear community,
I'm here to advice that the support have been denying us additional space for two weeks, first telling us that there was a momentary problem, then that we had made a request before...
I just wanted to post here what I have been able to find out thus far, in the event that it could help another IT administrator who is having the same issue connecting with someone at Dropbox that can offer more than wait and see in November. I spent a good amount of time of the past week trying to get a firm answer on what will be coming and...there is not one to be had, even at the corporate level. That being said, there are two major options being explored, at least from what I was able to find with my contacts with Dropbox. Once the 1- and 5-year marks are hit, based on your storage consumption levels per license, you will be given two options:
- You will be able to "negotiate" a rate at which the bulk of your data will be stored, this means anything past the 5TB per license will be assessed a "negotiated" fee per month. The negotiated rate will be based VERY closely to the current rate of $10/TB/month but will vary based on the age of the account, number of seats, and amount of usage.
- There will be a "negotiated" period where your data will be retained at a slightly elevated cost, this option is really to help those who are using the service and want to migrate to another provider. The cost will again be dependent on the above factors and will not be indefinite. There are talks of this being read-only, just as Google has recently done, but this is not a firm decision.
This in mind, I will suggest to all the actual businesses out there, which are using this service, to consider very carefully your IT mix and see if a possible increase is going to hit your company in a way that is unacceptable with your financial situation or is incongruent with your goals. While I cannot tell you what "negotiated" will be for you, I can tell you for a majority of those I consult with it will not be in their interest to keep using Dropbox. However, only you will be able to make that determination when the time comes.
On a side note, if you have a large number of users on a single account, we are talking 50 or more, you might want to consider the enterprise solutions, however, they are also scrutinizing new groups coming in as well. The larger you group and the lower your estimated use per seat is, the less hoops you will have to jump through, but again, this is all going to be up to you as to what you feel is an acceptable price for what Dropbox has to offer.
This is all that I have been able to garner from Dropbox at this time, however, it is enough for me and those I consult with to make decisions for our particular use cases going forward.
To do this, dropbox will end up with zero customers
- This is terrible, and all I can do is pray that I can make full use of the six-month buffer period and have enough time to migrate to a local storage cluster. Never have I felt so utterly worthless, tired of constantly moving from one cloud storage provider to another.
Hi, Niitr0
My proposal is a minio cluster, located in the western region of the United States. I have discussed prices with a vendor, and I believe that we can store a sufficient amount of data at a reasonable cost. However, the issue is that not every user is capable of maintaining a multi-node cluster and resolving machine failures or disk replacement like I can.
One of the major reasons for choosing a cloud storage provider is the ease of use. You don't have to worry about hardware issues beneath the software layer. Now, I am forced to take a more complicated route. Another potential solution is iDrive e2, paired with a compatible cloud storage service like nextcloud, which supports S3 storage and can provide a decent experience.
Although these options cannot compare to the excellent experience I had with Dropbox, I don't have a better alternative. I have a lot of data, and it has been a frustrating migration process to move them all to Dropbox over time.
- How much is the price?
