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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/Far_Choice_6419 on 2024-01-24 09:23:41+00:00.
I ask such question because I like taking notes and archiving information.
Notion is great, what sucks is that I can only upload 5MB of data per instance. Many of my notes contains website HTML snapshots (using chrome extension) as references sometimes are 12MB or more.
Usually websites shutdown or disappear, I keep site snapshots so that I have an original copy.
As an IT person, paying every month for saving notes makes no sense to me to get more storage space.
I was thinking what if there was something like a nonprofit Notion like service startup where every new account has about 500GB free, if serious note takers wants more space then $20 purchase would give them 1TB free storage for life. Basically in simple terms the user is just buying their own 1TB hard drive at the cloud level.
The service buys bulk large drives, like 10TBs. It offer low cost pricing/TB. The customer simply buys 1TB portion forever. As again this is Non-profit.
Could this be done at budget start up level and how could the server system be maintained long term as a non-profit? Something how Wikipedia gets funding to pay for electricity...
The best alternative I can think of now, is using GitHub as a file server... but this is simply the wrong way to do things.
Thanks.