An Update to Beacon’s Free Cloud Storage Policy
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Beacon's cloud storage is both free and very resilient, and before you panic at the title of this post, that's not changing. But there is a change being made to keep costs reasonable.

When you save a project to Beacon's cloud, it sits on a cache server for a few minutes before being copied to Beacon's long-term storage server. This delay helps avoid excessive versions if you save projects frequently. Once uploaded to long-term storage, a new version of the project is created and the old version is stored forever. The same behavior applies to other cloud storage objects, such as the data in the Mods and Templates sections. Anything that syncs to your Beacon account is versioned and permanent.

While this ensures that your data is never lost, the downside is the ever-increasing cost of this storage. Currently, about 80% of Beacon's cloud storage consists of old versions. And realistically, most of those old versions will never be needed. So a new lifecycle policy is in place that will have old versions being deleted after one year. Current versions of files, including deleted files, will continue to be maintained forever.

This small change will have a very minimal impact on users while helping to reduce the rate of storage growth.

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