B2 has serious performance problems on the US West Coast (and possibly other regions too) in the evenings. Between the hours of around 5 pm to 2am, somewhere between 1% and 5% of requests transfer at Despite how predictable and reproducible it is, I’ve had a support ticket open for months with no progress. Having said that, even with this issue, B2 is still better than its (non-hyperscaler) competitors.
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#12I do wish egress were free, it’s one of the reasons I stick with Cloudflare R2 at the moment.
From the article - egress up to 3x the average stored data per month is free, and egress to some CDNs and compute partners is free (from another page: Fastly, Cloudflare, bunny.net, CacheFly, CoreWeave, Equinix Metal, Vultr, and phoenixNAP).
Not sure it would make a difference with your R2 usage, but it might help you cut down costs some.
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#13B2 has serious performance problems on the US West Coast (and possibly other regions too) in the evenings. Between the hours of around 5 pm to 2am, somewhere between 1% and 5% of requests transfer at Despite how predictable and reproducible it is, I’ve had a support ticket open for months with no progress. Having said that, even with this issue, B2 is still better than its (non-hyperscaler) competitors.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Do you have a ticket number I can reference and ask about?
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#15Actually this price increase puts Backblaze B2 behind DigitalOcean's Cold storage which is $0.007/GiB, which equals to $6.5192/TB.
Of course there are other considerations too (e.g. min size is 128KiB and 30-day minimum storage duration), but in some use cases DO Cold storage is now cheaper.
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#16Actually this price increase puts Backblaze B2 behind DigitalOcean's Cold storage which is $0.007/GiB, which equals to $6.5192/TB. Of course there are other considerations too (e.g. min size is 128KiB and 30-day minimum storage duration), but in some use cases DO Cold storage is now cheaper.
>designed to store and scale to tens of petabytes of infrequently accessed data...
>During each billing cycle the Spaces Cold Storage service will have a 99.5% Uptime (as defined below) per month.
It's not really the same product.
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#17What about a Linux backup client?
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#18What about a Linux backup client?
rclone?
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#19In a normal world, price per terabyte would fall as a consequence of greater storage density and better power efficiency. A world with AI and a brewing oil crisis is not like that.
That is not true. HDD Drive price or cost per TB hasn't dropped for a very long time long before the AI craze.