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I care less about the download pricing for backups, and more about the storage pricing. I wish you had a comparison for your storage versus Glacier storage, bec

by natch 10y ago

I care less about the download pricing for backups, and more about the storage pricing. I wish you had a comparison for your storage versus Glacier storage, because all of the claims that it is "cheaper than S3" just seem non-credible when I factor Glacier into the picture. It is true that Glacier is a different service from classic S3, but you can't just ignore it. Or at least some of us can't. It does exist. I wonder how it compares. If you don't have a chart, can you tell us here? I understand download pricing can get complicated. But again I'm not asking about that. I realize download pricing also is important, but right now I'm just asking about storage pricing. Not sure if you are answering questions here but if yes, please share what you know.

budmang 10y ago
Sure. A bit hard to do as a table here, but here it goes: B2 Glacier Storage: $0.005/GB/mo === $0.004-$0.005/GB/mo (by region) Upload: Free === Free + $0.05/1000 transactions Download: $0.02/GB === $0.05-$0.09/GB Retrieval Fee: Free === $0.003-$0.03/GB + $0.003-$0.03/1000 requests Retrieval Time: Milliseconds === 1 min - 12 hours In short, unless you only upload very large individual files, do nothing with them, and don't access any of them for at least 10 years...B2 is lower cost. (And, of course, doesn't required you to wait to get them out.)
- natch 10y ago
  Nice, thanks! Edit: BTW it's really a breath of fresh air to see someone whose product is covered hanging around for a while answering questions. So many people in your position either don't show up on their HN stories at all, or do so only for an hour or so and then leave a ton of questions unanswered. Probably my number one wish list feature for hacker news would be if they could somehow coax people at companies that get linked to return more, including beyond the first hour or first day. I hope you check back on this story later and answer more questions that come in from different time zones.
  - budmang 10y ago
    Hard to keep up with all conversations on-line, but HN tends to be high signal-to-noise, and I appreciate the feedback we get.
  - atYevP 10y ago
    Yev from Backblaze Here -> My #1 feature request would be notifications or something a-la reddit that would tell me if someone replied to me. Scrolling through these is tough!

by natch 10y ago

budmang 10y ago

Sure. A bit hard to do as a table here, but here it goes: B2 Glacier Storage: $0.005/GB/mo === $0.004-$0.005/GB/mo (by region) Upload: Free === Free + $0.05/1000 transactions Download: $0.02/GB === $0.05-$0.09/GB Retrieval Fee: Free === $0.003-$0.03/GB + $0.003-$0.03/1000 requests Retrieval Time: Milliseconds === 1 min - 12 hours In short, unless you only upload very large individual files, do nothing with them, and don't access any of them for at least 10 years...B2 is lower cost. (And, of course, doesn't required you to wait to get them out.)

natch 10y ago
Nice, thanks! Edit: BTW it's really a breath of fresh air to see someone whose product is covered hanging around for a while answering questions. So many people in your position either don't show up on their HN stories at all, or do so only for an hour or so and then leave a ton of questions unanswered. Probably my number one wish list feature for hacker news would be if they could somehow coax people at companies that get linked to return more, including beyond the first hour or first day. I hope you check back on this story later and answer more questions that come in from different time zones.
- budmang 10y ago
  Hard to keep up with all conversations on-line, but HN tends to be high signal-to-noise, and I appreciate the feedback we get.
- atYevP 10y ago
  Yev from Backblaze Here -> My #1 feature request would be notifications or something a-la reddit that would tell me if someone replied to me. Scrolling through these is tough!