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.)