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I rather like http://rsync.net/. My critical, need to keep it offsite data backup requirements fit it well, there's one simple monthly charge and I can use rsync plus a handful of blessed shell commands to manage it. They also figured out a way to support git, which I use for projects that are too incomplete or unpolished to put up on GitHub. I looked very hard at S3 but it's rather inflexible for exactly what I want to do.

That said, I'm only storing my parent's photos and videos of their grandchildren (I'll lose all my media if my apartment is truly wiped out by a tornado, then again I'm unlikely to survive that). If you need to backup a lot of stuff S3 will be quite a bit cheaper (for me either is pocket change as of now).

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