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Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by brianwski »

thoughtpalette wrote: post #18

Is this going to work for static asset hosting such as for low cost FE assets? Can this be set to serve an index file from the root directory? Doe's it provide you a public URL to your (stealing s3 terms) bucket? Just curious as to why I would migrate from S3 for FE assets to Backblaze.

Yes! RIGHT NOW (during beta) we don't have the top level folder feature yet, the URLs all come from https:://f001.backblaze.com type of URLs. But this is one of my favorite uses (I have a private website I plan to move over) and we'll definitely be adding this feature soon.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by ComputerGuru »

brianwski wrote: post #16
ComputerGuru wrote: post #10

In addition to the good point raised by @jcreedon regarding their single datacenter (which I think is a bit of a bigger deal than he does, primarily because I don't think it scales linearly per-GB for the first few datacenters, though it might thereafter), I'm more concerned about the bandwidth. There's no talk about their backbone or their network capacity. I get that they have terabytes of upload coming in, but as…

Sorry about skipping your network capacity question. I just got over-excited about throttling. :-) We currently have about 100 Gbps symmetric capacity into our datacenter on a couple of redundant providers, but the key is we have open overhead and we'll purchase more as our customers need it. But here is the best part (if you want OUTBOUND capacity) - our current product fills the INBOUND internet connection, but cur…

Thanks for your reply :)

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by brianwski »

Jake232 wrote: post #19

You should allows period (.) in your signup form email field. I know you can just remove the period and the email will still get delivered to my gmail, but plenty of people likely don't know this.

You mean a period at the end? Like tmp@zebra.com. ? We'll fix it...

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by xrjn »

This is a really cool service, I can already think of a few cool uses for this. I once participated in a project (movie to gif library), and one of the biggest constraints was the cost of cloud storage - hopefully more competition in this space can drive prices down to where they become even more negligible.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by toomuchtodo »

jcreedon wrote: post #2

The biggest shortcoming I see compared to the other big players (AWS, Azure, Google), and it is something they don't mention, is that they only have one datacenter, compared to the several from the other big players. The pricing is quite incredible though. I suspect if enough people hop on board with this they will probably look into setting up another datacenter.

Something to note: Unless you're storing data in us-east-1, all other regions in AWS are "one datacenter". Yes, they have AZs, but those aren't datacenters, they're just compartmentalized segments of the same datacenter.

So! If you can tolerate the loss of a datacenter, store in Blackblaze. If you need geo-redundancy until Backblaze can offer it? Store in us-east-1 (which is geo-redundant between Virginia and Oregon).

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by Jake232 »

brianwski wrote: post #24
Jake232 wrote: post #19

You should allows period (.) in your signup form email field. I know you can just remove the period and the email will still get delivered to my gmail, but plenty of people likely don't know this.

You mean a period at the end? Like tmp@zebra.com. ? We'll fix it...

No. The form wasn't allowing xxx.yyy@gmail.com

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by toomuchtodo »

jrnkntl wrote: post #5

cmd+f redundancy, availability, durability, 99: 0 results. Only on https://www.backblaze.com/b2/why-b2.html it is that I can cite the following: "the B2 Cloud Storage service has layers of redundancy to ensure data is durable and available". What that exactly is or what it translates to is nowhere to be found. If you want corporations or developers to use your storage services for their precious data, I'd be a bit mo…

Compared to S3, which while they say 11 9s of durability, they only commit to 99% uptime on a monthly basis (98% for their new S3 intermittent availability offering):

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by toomuchtodo »

acdha wrote: post #14
budmang wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

brianwski below shares a good link...but you make a good point jrnkntl that we should talk more about it on the site. We'll plan to add more content around that on the Why B2 page. Thanks!

Please go into detail about how failures are detected and handled – e.g. how often is the archive scrubbed, will bitrot be detected on access, etc. Those details are really important for comparing services.

Does AWS provide this info for S3? I believe they do not, and only provide a percentage of durability maintained.
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