I see people from Blackblaze here, so let me ask: any chance we could get B2 integration in Synology's Hyper Backup ?<p>I know you're in Cloud Sync, but that's really not the same thing (a one/two way sync is not a backup service).<p>I'm not sure if you need to give Synology a nudge or something, and I would even pay a fee for it if need be, but until then I can't use B2 as one my main backup destination for all those businesses NAS I have at various small sized companies I administrate.
We're thrilled about this. In short, we've directly connected our storage and their compute to ensure fast connections, and made the data transfers free. We've heard some ways people want to use this (disaster recovery, transcoding, rendering) - but would love to hear ways that you might. Thank you!<p>Gleb from Backblaze
Backblaze B2 is awesome and the future looks very promising. Their team is also very open to new ideas and projects.<p>We have few PB of data there and never had any problem.<p>I honestly don't see any reason for anyone to use AWS or Google Cloud for object storage, except for the outbound network transfer issue from these providers.
If Backblaze added simple, cheap functions-as-a-service, I'd switch everything away from the Big Three cloud providers and Auth0 except for fallback microservices. The biggest reason is bandwidth costs, which are disproportionately huge for small and medium businesses if there are more than a couple kilobytes of transfer per invocation.<p>That said, I am not super impressed by these first two compute providers, and probably would not trust them to give me enough nines even if they started doing FaaS. I can spin up something similar with Kubernetes on Hetzner for considerably less money...
Can the people from Backblaze answer when they are going to accept payement in different currencies? My Backblaze bill is around $0.50 but my bank charges fees for conversion etc so the total paid is often around £2.50 or so. Would love if they’d accept bitcoin or Paypal/Amazon or charge British pounds.
B2 is interesting, and the price for object storage is pretty competitive. I wrote my stuff against S3's API, particularly for DO Spaces, but DO's fairly epic pants-crapping this week has me nervous.<p>My use case is download-heavy, though, and a little bit bursty (but with a long tail, a CDN doesn't really address my needs); what sort of bandwidth speeds can I expect from downloading B2 when a decent number of clients, let's say 100-500, are hitting a single object concurrently?
Was anyone able to figure out what bandwidth/data is included with the packet.net "tiny"? It's roughly 50 usd/month and lists dual 1gps uplink - but I couldn't see anything about bandwidth. Eg hetzner will include ~30tb/month with a gbps uplink - or roughly 45 gb/hour or 100 mbps sustained.<p>Given the other prices packet.net lists for bandwidth (Starting at 0.05/gb) i assume it's <i>not</i> unmetered (that's about 300 tb for 1 gbps for a month).
Packet wants me to contact them for a quote? I like BackBlaze's transparent pricing but won't be pairing Packet's compute service with it. Sorry.
This is great news, looks very interesting for data warehouse scenarios now with something like Spark or Drill. Are there any specs on throughput available to compute on Packet?<p>Side note: never heard of SlicingDice before but their website doesn't seem to be working, getting a cloudflare site offline page.
I've been a big fan of Backblaze for several years now. I'll make sure to stop by your booth at NAB and express my nerdy appreciation for your service.