## From Sky-High Bills to Controllable Costs

Thinking back to two years ago, the situation still gives me a bit of a chill. As a startup team, we faced a survival dilemma: either watch our AWS S3 bills grow like a snowball every month, or grit our teeth and accept the high premiums of permanent storage solutions. It felt like a sword hanging overhead, constantly eating into our cash flow.

But recently, the figures for this item have experienced a dramatic turnaround—dropping by 80%.

This is not just a simple discount. It’s a complete revolution in storage economics. Thanks to the Red Stuff coding technology, we have finally broken free from the fate of paying exorbitant rates to cloud computing giants. At the same time, we no longer have to foot the bill for expensive hardware like some POW mining storage networks. With just 4 to 5 times data redundancy, we achieve reliability that traditionally would cost 10 times more. This is true technological dimensionality reduction.

## Price Stability Is True Security

What makes me feel more secure isn’t just the cost itself, but the stability of that cost.

In the crypto space, volatility is the norm. Price swings like a roller coaster are common industry issues. But this system design incorporates a clever mechanism—the Storage Fund. Its operational logic is somewhat like macroeconomic regulation by a central bank.

Over the past year, the token’s price has fluctuated in the secondary market, but the actual storage costs we pay have remained on a stable track. When market prices rise, the fund releases subsidies to smooth things out; when prices fall, the fund adjusts accordingly. As a result, we, as corporate users, dare to truly migrate our core business rather than treat it as a speculative game. The certainty this provides is incredibly valuable in the Web3 world—those who understand know this well.

## Every Penny Reallocated

By 2026, in this fiercely competitive environment, every penny saved is ammunition.

We’ve redirected all the money previously spent on a certain cloud service provider into product development, market expansion, and technological iteration. This is the real empowerment that decentralized infrastructure offers to tangible startups—not empty talk, but survival space gained through genuine cost optimization.

## A Few Tips for Teams Doing Budgeting

**First, do the math.** The reduction in storage costs directly extends your project’s runway. In an era of uncertain financing environments, this is like buying a survival insurance policy.

**Second, beware of premium traps.** Why pay for 200-year permanent storage solutions when you only need 3 or 5 years? The leasing model adopted by new industry solutions is actually more aligned with common business sense.

**Third, infrastructure is your competitive edge.** This year, a company’s moat increasingly depends on what kind of infrastructure they use. The most efficient storage solution is the most efficient cost control.

Now is not the time to hesitate. Web2’s budgeting mindset is outdated.