![]() ![]() The changes will obviously be most disruptive for Bitcasa unlimited users - and especially those who have been storing more than 10TB of data with the service, and paying just $99 per year to do so. They will also auto-renew at their current pricing and 5TB of storage. The monthly price was $49 and is now $99 for new subscribers.Įxisting users of its pro plan will continue as before, with 5TB of storage and their current pricing. Since Bitcasa has increased the storage capacity of its pro plan - from 5TB to 10TB (to better accommodate those exiled from the land of unlimited storage) it has also increased prices for that plan. The choices facing unlimited users of Bitcasa wanting to continue using its service are to drop down to a 1TB premium plan, costing circa $99 per year, or pay $999 for a 10TB pro plan. To help provide a solution for large storage needs we have increased our Pro plan from 5 TB to 10 TB to accommodate all but the largest accounts. The reality is while we have tried to make our vision of infinite work, the low demand combined with the growing number of suspected abusers, means that supporting an Infinite plan is not a viable business for us. Only 0.5% of our accounts require more than 1TB, and less than 0.1% require more than 10TB. This is due largely to the lack of demand, but also because of persistent abuse of our Terms of Service. Writing on the Bitcasa blog detailing its new pricing structure - and also an overhauling of its backend storage infrastructure, which it says should yield improved upload/download performance - the company notes:īitcasa will no longer offer or support the Infinite storage plans. Less than three years later that unlimited promise is no more. It started out, back in 2011, offering unlimited cloud storage for just $10 per month. ![]() ![]() Reminder: there’s no such thing as a free lunch.īitcasa, a cloud storage service that initially made waves with a low cost unlimited storage offer is scrapping this option entirely - claiming it’s not being used enough to justify the high costs of dealing with a small group of what it dubs Terms of Service abusers.īitcasa is a former TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield finalist. ![]()
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