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And voilá ... here it is.
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It is certainly interesting how OVH undercuts the competition by quite a large margin in everything. We use them for dedicated servers, but I wonder why they're not as well known as AWS...
For me, there's a combination of reasons. First, they weren't in North America until recently. Having a server in France means high ping times for me and latency for the vast majority of my visitors. OVH started operations in Québec in 2013. So they've had less than three years to establish themselves. EC2 is 9 years old. Second, it's hard to figure out what to buy. With EC2, they're all Xen instances and you decide…
Runabove, OVH, VPS all those. The worst part is they keep posting about their streamlining and deep thought into reorganization. And yet no body understand "their" why.
To many it seems more like a reorganization for the sake of reorganization.
Then there is their Network. Which could range from Very good to VERY VERY bad.
And the final final thing? Is their lack of support or communication. You fire a email or ticket at least other host gives you a reply. OVH? None.
And when you add their non active support, unable to talk to sales or people for inquiry, and their overall complexity it is not hard to see why they dont pick up as much customer as they should have.
Updated object store comparison: http://gaul.org/object-store-comparison/
I also created a PR to add support for Exoscale.
I couldn't tell from the docs, but is it possible (or will it be possible) to generate a single use download URL to return to clients? I wouldn't want to have to pay double for outbound traffic going from B2 -> my server -> client.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yes, you could get a URL and give it to somebody. Every time that person accesses it though, there'd be a charge (unless you're within our free parameters). If I understand correctly...
For context, OVH offers object storage with 3x replication for $.01/GB [1]. [1] https://www.runabove.com/cloud-storage.xml
It is certainly interesting how OVH undercuts the competition by quite a large margin in everything. We use them for dedicated servers, but I wonder why they're not as well known as AWS...
For context, OVH offers object storage with 3x replication for $.01/GB [1]. [1] https://www.runabove.com/cloud-storage.xml
It is certainly interesting how OVH undercuts the competition by quite a large margin in everything. We use them for dedicated servers, but I wonder why they're not as well known as AWS...
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…
Brian from Backblaze here: We're really transparent about our redundancy. We use 17+3 Reed Solomon across 20 computers in 20 different locations in our datacenter. You can read about it here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...
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> as anyone who's used their software can tell you, it's throttled Brian from Backblaze here: no it is not throttled (by us). If you only have a 10 Mbit/sec upload capacity you are throttled by your ISP. Also make sure you visit our "Performance" tab in the online backup client and tweak a few settings, like increase the number of threads.
I have 100/100 up and down, and I barely push any more than 3MB/s when uploading. and in that time the client is easting all cores alive. I appreciate that it may not be the ISP. but the client does seem to end up being a major bottle neck. I moved to Linux a few months back, and was going to basically cancel my Backblaze sub when I got around to it since you have no interset in making a Linux client. Maybe B2 can ac…
It is faster transferring big files rather than many small files.
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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…
> But here is the best part (if you want OUTBOUND capacity) - our current product fills the INBOUND internet connection, but currently we only use a tiny, tiny fraction of the OUTBOUND connection. So if you want to serve files out of our datacenter we have a metric ton of unused bandwidth we would LOVE you to use. And if you fill it up, we promise to purchase more. :) well, yeah -- but thats also what B2 charges for.…
If you serve up viral videos etc. and start eating a ton of bandwidth, even a "do it yourself" CDN out of VPS's could quickly save you a fortune...