Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Post by samstave » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:13 PM UTC

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…

Post by kyledrake » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:14 PM UTC

brianwski wrote: post #58

benjojo12 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not server, desktop, Hence my annoyance you don't have a client for it. I can understand your biz reasons for not having one though.

Now with B2 we immediately support Linux and provide a client for it out of the box (written in python). Granted, it is only a command line interface so give us a little time to polish it up and add some features.

Post by samstave » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:15 PM UTC

brianwski wrote: post #40

chinathrow wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But if your inbound capacity is pretty full these days, how can you manage to onboard _large_ new clients at this point? Can you scale your inbound bandwith as fast (and at the same cost) as adding a new vault a month?

Our inbound is not completely full, and we always try to have extra capacity/headroom for new customers. But if you plan to upload more than 5 petabytes at a rate of faster than 15 Gbps sustained, you probably want to contact us ahead of time to let us know it's coming and we'll increase our capacity for you. We can absorb anything less and it won't cause us any issues. As somebody else mentioned, since we're in a co…

Post by brianwski » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:16 PM UTC

ehPReth wrote: post #92

What provider does Backblaze use for SMS verification? I'm using a Twilio number and it seems that the two disagree with each other. (It might be due to short-code use, but I'm not sure what their outbound number is.)

Post by jagger27 » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:18 PM UTC

brianwski wrote: post #69

devit wrote: post #56

Finally some more reasonable prices in this space. Eventually it could make sense for Backblaze to partner with someone like DigitalOcean or Linode and offer low cost bulk storage and low cost virtualization colocated in the same datacenter: these services seem to be a perfect complement for each other.

Brian from Backblaze here. Yeah, our B2 storage may not be a good solution for an application that has to do a lot of analysis on the data over and over again. In Amazon S3 you don't pay for transfers between EC2 and S3, so computing on your data is only as expensive as buying the EC2 time. Since Backblaze doesn't yet offer the EC2 functionality you would need to download your data to analyze it. What I'd really like…