When Matt was in town a month or so ago, we had a prolonged chat about VaultPress over lunch. Let's just say that some of the features he was proposing are really, really slick, but I did have the same concerns over the price. It doesn't seem to fit my price point, although if I was running WordPress as part of a small business, I'd consider it a bargain.

But the short of it is that that sort of price point is kinda required to make it profitable at all. Cloud storage simply isn't cheap, especially when you're using more than one provider for it.

One feature that we talked about which I thought really drove the point home: Migration. How would you like to be able to migrate a site as easy as restoring a backup from their servers? That sort of thing is entirely possible. Now, I have no idea if they actually have that feature, just that it would be more than possible to do based on what he was talking about. Essentially you're letting them manage your site entirely at the file and database content level, so having it automagically change those contents according to pre-defined methods lets you do this sort of thing.