Comments on: Bingo!

By: Arone Simi

Arone Simi — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 19:39:17 +0000

WebDAV has around 10-20% protocol overhead compared to sftp or scp. It is a seriously bloated protocol. This means that you really only get 8 GB of data uploaded per month (give or take).

Let’s assume you do some reading of your data and not just uploading … it’s conceivable that if you attempted to avoid all extra bandwidth charges you would have 48 GB of storage after one year.

Now do the math – assuming 4 GB written per month, by the end of one year you will have spent, per GB/mo:

4+2+1.3+1+.8+.66+.57+.5+.44+.4+.36+.33

Divide by 12 and you get 1.03. So the cost of using bingodisk is $1.03/GB per month.

It’s very interesting economics. I like the product (well, I would if it supported rsync) but don’t get blinded by the seemingly low price.

By: Jason Hoffman

Jason Hoffman — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:15:53 +0000

James: Bingo does public file delivery and is only accessible up-and-down by HTTP (it does HTTPS). Strongspace is completely closed, you can’t use it to host a podcast or images for a separate site.

By: James Lindeman

James Lindeman — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:15:02 +0000

How do you differentiate Bingo from Strongspace? You can’t very well say that Strongspace is more secure, since that would imply that Bingo not entirely secure. The price per GB from that perspective is entirely skewed. Maybe I’m missing something. (Note that I am a happy Strongspace user.)

By: Dick Davies

Dick Davies — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:35:23 +0000

Can you fix the ‘white on black’ theme for bingodisk.com?

I’m as leet as the next guy, but c’mon.

By: jonto

jonto — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:35:27 +0000

@Raymond

Customer service issues aside, there is a delicate balance between investing in current products and investing in new ones. The current products pay the bills and pay for the development of the new offerings.

@ David

I will be signing up soon!

By: Hank

Hank — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:38:48 +0000

@David

You guys are awesome!

Hopefully I can get my business coverted to using BingoDisk by the end of the year.

Hank

By: David Young

David Young — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:45:45 +0000

Hank:

By: hank

hank — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:26:48 +0000

According to the following Sun web site

http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/

Thumper cost $2/GB. That’s the exact same price Joyent is offering BingoDisk for.

Is Joyent making any money off of BingoDisk?

By: Vivek Puri

Vivek Puri — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:34:22 +0000

David, Can you please contact me regarding a writeup on Bingo.-Vivek

By: Raymond Brigleb

Raymond Brigleb — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:08:24 +0000

Thanks, David. Sorry about the harsh tone. Having only been a customer of yours for less than two years, I should spend more time being amazed at how far you’ve come in such a short span of time, and less time worrying that you’ll forget little guys like me.

I do admire Joyent’s ambition and skills, and find your business very inspiring. Rest assured I will continue to drink the Kool-Aid, and I’m sure we’ll be first in line for the next “package offering!”