How to deal with 80 GB Blockchain?

[BlockSense]

Pruning is most definitely the easiest solution to this issue. One could say the blockchain size is a testament to bitcoinss growing usage. I feel some servers (digitalocean?) should have a "deploy bitcoin core" service that will help save on initial startup. Storage and hosting is getting better and cheaper but still has some way to go before cheaper solutions are worthwhile for both company and customers. 

[pereira4]

It's a pain in the ass to be honest. Maintaining it is not that hard work, but download it from scratch? That's a nightmare. I just hope that it never corrupts again. It sometimes has corrupted after upgrading the software. Honestly if it happens again I may give up and run pruned mode in 0.12. And to think there's people that want to make it grow twice as fast, what are they smoking? I think we need to wait a bit longer to raise it so the average user has better internet and hardware.

[unamis76]

Buy a new drive or more VPS space

[Hannu]

We already know that we have to download Bitcoin Core wallet if we want to contribute the network by running the full node of the blockchain.

But it will be a tedious job download the full chain of size 80 GB again if there happens something wrong with one's wallet and it needs to restart a wallet from the beginning.

So is there a recent bootstrap file available anywhere so that I can keep it as a backup in case I need it whenever I start a new wallet?
Or can anyone help me out on how to create a bootstrap file myself directly from the wallet files?

Technical helps are much appreciated

Do not use online wallet? If you dont wanna run fullnode/node on bitcoin network?

Use offline wallet example http://www.coinmotion.com/

[bob123]

A backup once per Week/month should be fine.
128 GB USB sticks arent expensive at all anymore

[Moloch]

Just run it in pruning mode then. If you limit it to 10 GB, then that is only $1/month.

Out of curiosity, what host are you using? (If you don't want to share, no big deal).

AWS

They charge separately for things like HD space and bandwidth