Cloud file server with no per user fees?

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Apologies for the slightly tacky title but.. we're looking for a lump of space somewhere that will provide a shared working space for us and our partners - for various reasons we don't want to do this in house.

Can anyone recommend a service where we're paying for space and not per user?

We have around 70 people who would need to use this but many of them use it very occasionally so unsurprisingly we don't really want to be paying $5-10 per month for each of them.

We also want quite granular permissions so that if there are several top level project folders a particular user might have access to certain folders but wouldn't even see that the others exist.

I know of all the usual suspects like Dropbox, Egnyte, Box, Oxygen, SugarSync and I've looked at the roll-your-own solutions like Owncloud and nothing seems to fit what I'm looking for 100% - so far something called FolderGrid is the closest but I can't find anyone who's using it.

Any other suggestions please?
Hosted Sharepoint?
ShareFile? I'm not sure if it fits your situation but you can have unlimited "clients" if the bulk of the 70 users fit in that category you would only have to pay for a couple of employees and storage. I have only used it with a small group of about 10 users; it works good for us, but we mostly use it for exchanging large documents with clients.
If FolderGrid sounds like a good fit, just ask for references from the vendor.
Slightly different angle on this - has anyone any experience of CTERA?
hutchingsp wrote:

I recently ran into one, turns out our national phone company uses it to provide a backup service. There was a little two-disk NAS deployed at the customer's office, so the backups ran over LAN, and then synced up to the cloud storage. Seems to work well enough, but it's a very small (~15GB) and simple deployment.
How about AeroFS? It's fully peer-to-peer distributed (so zero hosting costs), but you can also run a team server so that it keeps a copy of all replicated data.
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