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How I saved myself $1200 a year in cloud storage - in 5 sobering steps
Are you a data hoarder? I was, and the costs were spiraling out of control. These five changes helped me cut my storage bill in half.
It's a story of online data hoarding in the guise of best practices, where too much became way too much, and the seemingly simple task of maintaining backups became an on-call emergency response second job. Beyond the terabytes of networked VMs used for what we would now call AI agent development, I have all the video elements involved in producing fairly high-quality YouTube. That slice contains all of our imported DVD collection, along with music files, and other media, including my archive of the production graphics work for all of my ZDNET articles.
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