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Bill Capelli
Bill Capelli

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Trying to understand Parse file storage

I have a question about a service called Parse, which is a Backend As A Service (BaaS).

I am not an experienced coder so this is a noob question but I am puzzled by the fact that Parse offers 1 GB of free storage and 10 GB of storage for the $199 plan... it seems to me that Parse would be ridiculously expensive to run an app such as Anypic where user can easily create content which is stored on Parse servers... You would quickly run out of 10 GB even if you don't have a lot of users...

I feel like there is something that I don't understand... If anyone could help me out, I would really be thankful.

PS: I already read all the tutorials and went through the documentation of Parse and tried to ask directly on their forum.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 834

Answers (1)

Wain
Wain

Reputation: 119041

It's a scalable solution. The idea would be to start off with the free plan, then whe you get over 1GB you pay 20¢ per extra 1GB. When the combination of your server requests and data storage is large, you move up to the next plan and then when over 10GB you pay 15¢ per extra 1GB. Then you move to enterprise account.

It's expected that if your product does well, you'll be making money so you can pay for the service features you need.

Upvotes: 2

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