> Backblaze B2 was a strong candidate... The one > issue is that they seem to have inconsistent latency. I work at Backblaze, and B2 is our second product (On

> Backblaze B2 was a strong candidate... The one > issue is that they seem to have inconsistent latency. I work at Backblaze, and B2 is our second product (Online Backup was our first product). We are less experienced at serving up data that has fixed latency requirements, but we're learning and actively improving this area all the time. I'm curious when you last tried it and I would be interested in hearing about your experiences (in a personal message if you like). In a nutshell, the first time we read a file we build it from the vaults (vaults are our lowest layer which is reliable but slowest) and that should be fairly consistent with some caveats (see below) and then for at least the next 24 hours it should be extremely fast and consistent being served out of our SSD cache layer. Caveats: If you upload a ton of files it is getting loaded into the most recent vault we have deployed. So for three or four days you and everybody else are uploading tons and tons of files to this exact vault causing great loads. After ten days the vault will be "full" and we'll deploy another vault and suddenly serving up your files will become a lot more consistent and easier and faster because the vault is almost entirely idle. What we just started doing is deploying twice as many vaults at once to lower their load in half while they "fill up" making the response in the first 10 days faster and more consistent.