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> What happens if there is a disaster there? While unlikely there are other threats. You could have a disgruntled or mentally unbalanced employee. All eggs in
by gist 10y ago
> What happens if there is a disaster there?
While unlikely there are other threats. You could have a disgruntled or mentally unbalanced employee. All eggs in one basket (whatever the basket and how robust it is) is always a potential problem.
To me the way to deal with this threat would be to spread backups over two vendors even if backblaze decides to open other data centers as Yev has indicated in his comment.
- atYevP 10y ago> You could have a disgruntled or mentally unbalanced employee. The recent S3 outage was caused by a typo. You can plan around natural disasters and all sorts of things, but the vast majority of the time, data loss is caused by humans. Diversify where that data lives. We would never recommend that you should ONLY keep your backup in Backblaze. We should be part of your solution.
- gist 10y agoI think that if you do open other data centers you should charge extra for that in your pricing, optionally. While there could be negative marketing implications depending on the exact cost or how it's worded, I don't think it's an unreasonable approach. Since not everyone needs the diversity and it would make more sense (because it assumes your costs will go up) to not make all customers pay for something that they don't need because they have other plan b's. You might already be the plan c for some of your customers. > We would never recommend that you should ONLY keep your backup in Backblaze I am guessing (I haven't thoroughly checked so I could be wrong) that your marketing materials don't make this fact known in an obvious way. No issue with that but I think many non business users might not think of it this way.
- atYevP 10y agoWe do try to emphasize a 3-2-1 backup strategy through newsletters and blogs posts. A few examples: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ and more recently https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backing-up-for-small-business/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backing-up-for-small-business.... We're not trying to hide anything, and truthfully, plenty of folks do use us as their primary or only backup, and it works just fine. Most business' already have a multi-part backup strategy in place. As for the charging for geo-redundancy, it's something we've considered, but at least for now we like "clean" pricing where it's the same across the board. Might change in the future, but nothing to report now.
- dexterdog 10y agoThat was a service outage which is a far, far cry from a data loss.