No need for an Amazon account any longer!
We’re proud to launch a new feature at filicio.us: Users no longer need their own Amazon AWS account to sign up and use filicio.us. Instead we’re now offering to account choises:
- Simple accounts: Use filicio.us on it’s own and pay filicio.us directly for your usage. The price model is much the same a Amazon’s, but we need to charge a bit more than Amazon to have it make economic sense to handle payments. The great thing about the simple account is that you don’t need to sign up with Amazon and then provide filicio.us with you secret key just to get going…
- Advanced account: The choice for the advanced user who wants to be billed through Amazon AWS, as before.
The new signup model makes filicio.us much easier to use, and we’re still the cheapest choice around:
Download/GB: $0.25
Upload/GB: $0.50
Storage/GB/month: $0.20
This basically means that you pay-as-you-go just as with Amazon. This makes for a much more flexible choice than other storage services around since users won’t need to choose between three uncomfortable pricing packages. You pay for usage and that’s it!
To make sure that new users know what they’re paying for they’ll get a sign-up bonus of $0.15 when they start out. This roughly corresponds to 60MB of free storage for year.
(By the way, this introduction marks the beginning of a quite a few changes in the upcoming weeks and months. Hopefully, this will make filicio.us a very attrative option for backup, storage and file sharing.)
Jonathan Molina said,
August 28, 2006 @ 6:23 am
This is great news. I really hope this open up the site to newcomers and allows them to experience the great service you have tied in with Amazon’s S3 service. Keep up the great work!
bp said,
September 20, 2006 @ 6:20 am
I’m not sure the difference between Simple and Advanced – does Advanced cost the same, but Amazon bills for it (you worked this out with them?)?
Also, there’s no way to check the status of your account, or change it. I assume, having an existing account, that I’m “Advanced”… especially since I just test-uploaded another file, and it showed up on my S3 account, as usual. Clarification?
Steffen Christensen said,
February 16, 2007 @ 4:28 pm
Advanced is simply this:
You use your Amazon S3 account, and we never see a dime of it.
And then there’s Simple:
We bill you up front and store the files on our S3 account. You won’t have to be hassled with signing up elsewhere and it’s still gonna be cheap online storage. In the future we’ll have an option for you to transfer files from Simply to Advanced so you’re not stuck with filicio.us forever. (That’s probably where EC2 hosting becomes necessary)
Karen Wood said,
November 13, 2007 @ 1:11 pm
I just received an email stating that I needed to update my account or it would be terminated. I don’t have an account with Amazon!!! Please advise thank you
Steffen said,
November 15, 2007 @ 6:49 am
That sounds extremely odd; could you forward this mail to steffen@filicio.us so I can have a look at it?