A good upsell, yes.  But initial seeding to &quot;affordably priced&quot; online services at full data rate can never be economically viable to the provider.  Bandwidth is cheap(er) these days, but routers which can handle big bandwidth are still big bucks.<p>Hold on, this is hacker news.  VCs, this is a great idea!<p>No, no of course it&#x27;s not.  Initial seeding is a competitive moat for the first mover.  Moving a few hundred gigs to a new backup company just to save a few bucks? I don&#x27;t think I could be bothered, because I KNOW how long it will take.