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Originally Posted by Mr. Deltoid
Why is storage so expensive? I pay $20/month for a quasi-VPS/shared plan with unlimited storage -- I'm using at least 150 GB, 3 GB of RAM and 3.5 TB of bandwidth. Getting to > 300 GB of storage, which is what I'd need to future-proof things, results in pretty crazy prices (for a site like the one I'm hosting). Given how much storage costs have cratered, this confuses me.
I'm not prepared to quadruple or quintuple my current yearly budget for hosting, I'd like to not spend more than $50/month.
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Your hosting is selling you a fantasy. Read the TOS, they 100% for sure give you a limit on IOPS and have clauses that if you use too much server resources they can terminate your account. There is a reason why pornhub does not house it's video collection on a $20/mo shared hosting.
Besides that, the harddrive you use on your home pc is different then the one used in a server. Enterprise level shit costs more.