How I saved myself $1200 a year in cloud storage - in 5 sobering steps

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• My cloud storage costs exploded after unlimited plans vanished.
• Backing up everything was expensive and unnecessary.
• Five strategic changes saved me over $1,200 per year.

60 terabytes. I'll never see that much cloud storage again. I'm relieved - and a little sad.

This story began many chapters ago. It culminated with some serious self and infrastructure examination, hard conversations, and a few tough decisions.

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.

I changed all that this week.

TL;DR

There's a lot to this story, but if you want a quick summary of my changes, it's this: I ...