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I gave up and just started using AWS S3 directly. I use a few GB, pay a few pennies for storage, a few more pennies for bandwidth if I'm moving stuff around, and that's it. I've never paid more than $10/month, and it's usually under $1/month.

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that defeats the whole purpose of dropbox though. You can have a cheap ftp server for $10/year if you look hard enough.

But the argument for dropbox is that you have a client for almost every platform you can use. With S3 you'll have to use a 3rd-party software, which might not function properly.

What client(s) do you use to access your bucket? What kind of sharing features do they have? Is there a web frontend? And how do you deal with eventual consistency?

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