Web Hosting : Getting lots of data off a dedicated server…

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This web hosting thread started by rscott on 01 December 2008

I have a project (using multiple servers) that has generated 3TB of data (compressed), with another .5TB or so each month, and the hard drives on my servers are very close to capacity.

The data doesn’t need to be accessible online, so I’m trying to find a low cost way to deal with this data. Keeping the data on dedicated server(s) raises the monthly cost every few months, which isn’t good. Transferring that much data to my location via the Internet is costly and inconvenient.

I’m thinking the best option would be to find a host that can ship hard drives to me, after I copy data over. Does anyone know if that is something that hosting companies are willing to do? Any other ideas for transferring the data?

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