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Features	FileWhopper Business	Typical Cloud Storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.)
Payment model	Pay-as-you-go: the user purchases a transfer package, which gets reduced with use, without any time limits or subscriptions	Subscription: you pay monthly/yearly for file storage and transfers, even if you don't send anything
What is the cost tied to?	Size of files sent / GB	Storage space / GB
How long is the file stored for after upload?	14 days by default / You can always purchase additional time (up to 90 days) for storing your data	During the paid subscription period
Number of downloads for each transfer	1 by default / You can always purchase additional downloads	Unlimited
File storage time after download	3 days	During the paid subscription period
Maximum transfer size	Unlimited	200GB - 250GB
File syncing between computer drive and cloud drive	Not implemented	Users often have problems with Internet traffic bandwidth, which is spent on constant data synchronization. The more files to sync, the more problems there will be.
Option to pause upload or download, and switch to other tasks that require internet traffic	Yes	No
Ability to download a file while it is still uploading	Yes	No
Data access security	Zero knowledge encryption Learn more about it here	Often, there is a situation when the user gives access to the entire folder while wanting to share a single file from it

What conclusions can be drawn?

Let's take a look at your case and see how much you can benefit by moving most of your data to a computer drive/external drive and purchasing our transfer package.

Cloud storage is best for those:

Who frequently or regularly share the same files that are stored on the cloud drive
Who want the data constantly synchronized between the cloud and their computer drives
Who prefer to store data on the cloud instead of using a computer drive for it

FileWhopper is best for those:

Who only want to pay for the gigabytes they send and save money
Who don’t mind storing most of the data on their computer drive or external drive
Who mostly send different files and folders
Who want to send data to a specific recipient or recipients
Who don’t want their data to be constantly synchronized, slowing down their computer
Who are concerned that they might lose sensitive data or access to accounts on the cloud server. As one of our users said, “Trusting cloud storage with your data is like trusting your Bitcoins to the FTX exchange.”

In any case, it is ultimately up to you to decide what to use for storing or sending files. The above "Best for..." lists are just our suggestions.

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What conclusions can be drawn?

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