No additional space on Business Advanced

[ggtello]

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 the 7 days, then again (after waiting 7 days) that there is a problem which however is not written by Nowhere.

We're really worried about that because they don't give us any timelines and the fact that the problem doesn't exist on the dropbox status page and that nobody else talks about it seems a bit suspicious.

I don't like writing these posts but we are really worried don't you think? Are any of you having similar problems? do they only have it with us?

[OfficeInCT]

I would highly encourage users to NOT look at Dropbox as an Enterprise service. Nor Google Drive, nor Box.com, nor any of the other ones like that. Frame.IO is launching a service soon that allows users to connect S3 storage. IBM, Azure, Google Cloud are all better fits for storage. 

[cgi_ltd]

S3 storage tends to be on the expensive side, when you consider the amount it costs just for the storage, not to mention any ingress or egress fees to pull/push data to them.

[OfficeInCT]

That's true it does, but situations like this are less likely to arise. Always the trade off: speed or cost or quality. 

[Eldon McGuinness]

Don't bother, just host your own service and make your own s3 storage on it.

If you want some info on this let me know.

[OfficeInCT]

Yeah, lot of companies going back to on-prem. 45Drives has their Storinator as an option for people https://www.45drives.com/products/storinator-xl60-configurations.php

[Eldon McGuinness]

Does that include drives? Didn't seem to note that it did. Though, maybe I can't see it on the mobile view. Looks like they need a web developer...

[OfficeInCT]

@Eldon McGuinness Doesn't include drives, but purpose built and solid customer service. 

[Eldon McGuinness]

13k and no drives?! That is crazy. Maybe Dropbox is doing business with these guys, would explain the plan price change LOL.

[cgi_ltd]

eBay has TONS of used enterprise storage devices. Plenty that won't break the bank and and can be configured how you want it. Install whatever OS you want in it and throw a 10gb SFP card in it, for example;

https://www.ebay.com/itm/154728911136?var=454821194443

[Eldon McGuinness]

Indeed, I recommend people to take a look there, if they're ok with the associated risks, first.