Icloud back up time

I am backing up my new iphone5s to icloud but when i started an hour ago it said 6 hours its now at 16 hours.
I have the phone plugged in and connected to Wifi but surely it couldnt take this long.
I seen a discussion where some suggested deleting the account and starting again and it worked but I purchased additional storage on my last phone so that i could reinstaller photo's etc to this phone, will I loose the additional storage if I delete the account.
any suggestion or information would be greatly appreciated.
thanks

If you purchased additional storage it will remain with the account you purchased the storage for, regardless of what you do on your device. You can delete the account and sign back into it and the storage will still be there.

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