# Stop Paying Rent to Move Your Own Files

> You uploaded terabytes to the cloud. Now your provider charges you to leave. Here's how Blober lets you escape vendor lock-in with a single payment - no subscriptions, no data caps, no CLI.

## The Trap

You uploaded 2 TB of photos, videos, and backups to the cloud. Life was good - until you wanted to move them somewhere else.

Suddenly, you're hit with **egress fees**, per-GB migration charges, and the realization that your cloud provider has been counting on you never leaving. It's your data. But moving it costs real money - every single time.

AWS charges \~$0.09/GB for egress. That's **$184 just to download 2 TB of your own files**. Want to use a SaaS migration tool? That's another $10-20/month, with transfer caps. Prefer the open-source CLI route? Clear your afternoon - you'll need it for YAML configs, credential files, and provider-specific quirks.

![The trap: cloud providers charge you egress fees, SaaS tools charge subscriptions, and CLI tools cost you hours of setup time](/kb/_astro/01-the-trap.CcqwyS6M_Z2sGhsq.webp)

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## The Math

Let's talk real numbers. Over three years, here's what you'll pay using common approaches:

| Approach                | 3-Year Cost     | Catch                                       |
| ----------------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| **SaaS Migration Tool** | \~$360          | Monthly sub + data caps                     |
| **Per-GB Service**      | \~$720+         | $0.03/GB, billed every transfer             |
| **DIY with CLI**        | 40+ hours       | Config per provider, no UI, breaks silently |
| **Blober**              | **One payment** | Unlimited transfers. Forever.               |

The subscription model is designed to extract value from you month after month. The per-GB model punishes you for having more data. The CLI path trades money for your time.

Blober breaks the cycle. **Pay once. Transfer as much as you want, as many times as you want.** No meter running. No renewal emails. No "upgrade to unlock more."

![Cost comparison over 3 years: SaaS tools cost $360, per-GB services cost $720+, DIY CLI costs 40+ hours, Blober costs one single payment](/kb/_astro/02-the-math.DXSEFicp_ZJWkSr.webp)

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## The Escape

Blober is a desktop app - not a SaaS, not a CLI tool, not a cloud service. It runs on your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine and connects directly to your cloud providers:

* **AWS S3** - buckets and objects, any region
* **Azure Blob Storage** - containers and blobs
* **Google Drive** - files and folders, including shared drives
* **GoPro Cloud** - back up your action footage locally or to any cloud
* **Backblaze B2** - the affordable S3 alternative
* **Dropbox** - personal and business accounts
* **Cloudflare R2** - zero-egress object storage
* **Wasabi** - hot storage without the cold fees
* **DigitalOcean Spaces** - all regions, auto-detected
* **Local Disk** - any folder on your machine

Your files never touch a middleman server. Blober streams directly between your machine and the provider APIs. Browse your cloud storage visually, select what you want, pick a destination - done.

If a transfer gets interrupted (bad WiFi, laptop closed, provider hiccup), Blober picks up where it left off. No re-uploading. No duplicate files.

![Blober connects many cloud providers in one app: AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Drive, GoPro Cloud, Backblaze B2, Dropbox, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, DigitalOcean Spaces, local disk, and more](/kb/_astro/03-the-escape.Djha83zZ_p7YEU.webp)

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## The Move

Here's what switching to Blober actually looks like:

**Before:** You're juggling browser tabs, CLI sessions, and a spreadsheet tracking which files went where. A SaaS tool emails you that you've hit your 1.2 TB monthly cap. You Google "rclone config azure" for the third time.

**After:** You open Blober. Connect your accounts. Drag from source to destination. Walk away. It just works.

No internet needed for local-to-local moves. No data ever leaves your machine unless you're sending it to a cloud provider *you* chose.

![Before and after comparison: monthly subscriptions, data caps, and files routed through servers vs. one-time payment, unlimited transfers, and 100% local execution with Blober](/kb/_astro/04-the-move.BIbL-5Uo_1CLIFf.webp)

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## Who Is This For?

* **Photographers & videographers** moving terabytes of footage from GoPro Cloud or Google Drive to cheaper archival storage
* **Developers & DevOps engineers** migrating between S3-compatible providers without writing scripts
* **Small businesses** consolidating cloud storage without paying an enterprise migration service
* **Privacy-conscious users** who want their files transferred directly, not through a third-party cloud
* **Anyone tired of paying monthly fees** to tools that move files you already own

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## Get Blober

Your data. Your machine. Your rules.

**One payment. Unlimited transfers. No expiration.**

**[Download Blober => blober.io](https://blober.io)**