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Ugh. 2019 Backblaze increases monthly prices 20%. 2021 Backblaze increases monthly prices 17%. 2023 Backblaze increases monthly prices 29%. Boiling frog scenario for sure. And I recommend BB to all my friends and family, but at $108/year, I'm starting to get close to just using Time Machine and an external SSD.
they are currently very profit negative (25m revenue with 14m loss), so they still need hike prices very significantly to catch up..
My friend called me over to transfer his data and apps from one PC to a newer one. No problem.
So I did an inventory and figured out how it needed to happen, and he had a nice USB drive we could just use as intermediary.
I dragged-n-dropped every last file over there. I can't remember the details, but for some reason, I needed to wipe the source drive, because it was also the destination or something.
I did a "Properties" check to compare the HDD with the USB and something wasn't right. The file and folder counts were both far too small. I looked at my friend and said "I don't like this... should I proceed?" and he goes "Yeah!"
So I wipe the source and do the partition and install, and yeah, all his Thunderbird mail has gone missing. Eventually I realized it was my utter rookie mistake of not showing hidden files before drag-n-drop.
So I'm white as a sheet and shaking in my boots when he goes "but what about my BackBlaze?" "Your what?" Something he didn't even mention while I was taking inventory!
So we get the little agent installed, and check out his file space, and his whole livelihood comes screaming down the pipe, and I can breathe again, and we celebrated success over some homemade kombucha.
Ugh. 2019 Backblaze increases monthly prices 20%. 2021 Backblaze increases monthly prices 17%. 2023 Backblaze increases monthly prices 29%. Boiling frog scenario for sure. And I recommend BB to all my friends and family, but at $108/year, I'm starting to get close to just using Time Machine and an external SSD.
> Boiling frog scenario for sure. they are currently very profit negative (25m revenue with 14m loss), so they still need hike prices very significantly to catch up..
Which is really sad since they offered pretty good service and performance. I've already cut my home usage down from four Macs to one. I'll probably add another external drive to one of my Macs and use Arq for backing up the drives. It's not off-site backup, but all my important stuff is backed up off-site through other methodologies.
Oof, 20% increase in B2 pricing. I suppose a price increase was inevitable, but thats a pretty big jump. Now that they are publicly traded, you can see their financials and they have been losing money every quarter. This price increase doesn't appear to be because it is more expensive to store data and provide their services on top of that - gross margins are roughly the same as a year ago. Instead their increasing l…
Wasabi are B2's biggest competitor, and they just raised their prices to $7, so B2 are still staying $1 cheaper.
While a very very useful service that gives me a lot of peace of mind, the price increase is a bit of a bummer (but understandable) and also kind of makes me a teeny bit annoyed at the the fact that it’s unlimited. Unlimited basically means I’m subsidizing people who are storing 50tb of content on their home machine, and also incentivizing people like me to store stupid shit because otherwise I’m wasting money. While…
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Wasabi are B2's biggest competitor, and they just raised their prices to $7, so B2 are still staying $1 cheaper.
Are they a competitor? Wasabi doesn't have public access buckets while Backblaze has.
I was using my nearest endpoint.
While a very very useful service that gives me a lot of peace of mind, the price increase is a bit of a bummer (but understandable) and also kind of makes me a teeny bit annoyed at the the fact that it’s unlimited. Unlimited basically means I’m subsidizing people who are storing 50tb of content on their home machine, and also incentivizing people like me to store stupid shit because otherwise I’m wasting money. While…
Yev from Backblaze here -> Wanted to touch on something you mentioned: if you don't have a lot of data, you might want to look into B2 Cloud Storage with one of the many backup integrations to back up your computer. It'll be $6/GB/Month, which may end up being more economical: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/integrations
Backblaze saved my butt and reputation once. My friend called me over to transfer his data and apps from one PC to a newer one. No problem. So I did an inventory and figured out how it needed to happen, and he had a nice USB drive we could just use as intermediary. I dragged-n-dropped every last file over there. I can't remember the details, but for some reason, I needed to wipe the source drive, because it was also…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wasabi are B2's biggest competitor, and they just raised their prices to $7, so B2 are still staying $1 cheaper.
Are they a competitor? Wasabi doesn't have public access buckets while Backblaze has.