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I use B2 as the backend for my personal backups using restic (which I would highly recommend https://github.com/restic/restic ). I don't have a ton of data to backup, so even with hourly backups (restic only backs up when there are changes) I have ~100GB and it runs me a whopping $0.60/month. I almost feel guilty when I get the bill. But the minute I need to pick a storage platform in a professional context I know wh…
The most interesting thing here is the discussion about using vendor hardware instead of their own bespoke stuff. My takeaway is that it's still essentially impossible to negotiate anywhere close to a fair price with commodity server vendors until you are buying hundreds of machines, and then only if you are capable of demonstrating that you are willing to design and build them yourself. And yet despite this, it's st…
IMO, for a small number of servers, the insane markup isn't a huge cost of business so doesn't matter that much.
Is there any information what lead to Backblaze to stop making their own hardware and going with COTS?
Actually I'm referring to their drive stats and not their storage pod stats like in this report.
Thank you Backblaze.
The most interesting thing here is the discussion about using vendor hardware instead of their own bespoke stuff. My takeaway is that it's still essentially impossible to negotiate anywhere close to a fair price with commodity server vendors until you are buying hundreds of machines, and then only if you are capable of demonstrating that you are willing to design and build them yourself. And yet despite this, it's st…
> Where do regular people buy servers without insane markup if you need say 10-20? IMO, for a small number of servers, the insane markup isn't a huge cost of business so doesn't matter that much.
I really wished Backblaze B2 worked better to be a real alternative to S3. The pricing is a middle finger to AWS and other providers. However, we were having 1 outage per month with B2, and in the middle of 2023 we decided to go back to AWS and only use S3 for replication. We still monitor both services simultaneously (S3 and B2), and every other month we are still having an episode where the latency rises from 15ms…
I use B2 as the backend for my personal backups using restic (which I would highly recommend https://github.com/restic/restic ). I don't have a ton of data to backup, so even with hourly backups (restic only backs up when there are changes) I have ~100GB and it runs me a whopping $0.60/month. I almost feel guilty when I get the bill. But the minute I need to pick a storage platform in a professional context I know wh…
Rustic is better
Is there any information what lead to Backblaze to stop making their own hardware and going with COTS?
Yes, building your own shit is expensive. Tale as old as time. Before someone uses Google's servers as an example, I would say that strapping together consumer grade components with zip ties and no case isn't what I'd consider a 'server'; rather, a loose collection of parts.
However, it does cause you to write some very fault tolerant code.
>>>All 40 of the Dell servers which make up these two Vaults were relocated to the top of 52U racks, and it appears that initially they did not like their new location. Or the way in which they were handled during the relocation?
Maybe they moved them again to confirm location was the issue
Seems like they changed something.