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Why single out these two providers? Shared parent company? Are they paying out of some marketing budget? Cheaper peering for some reason?
by Nullabillity 9y ago
Why single out these two providers? Shared parent company? Are they paying out of some marketing budget? Cheaper peering for some reason?
- brianwski 9y agoDisclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > why single out these two providers? They are the first two. We are very open to more! > Shared parent company? Backblaze is owned by employees. 100% of the board of directors work at the company every day. We have no parent company. :-) > Cheaper peering for some reason? Yes. We made sure any candidate partner has a direct cross connect with our locations and the data goes over pipes we own so our costs are "fixed". After you own/lease the fiber line the bandwidth is "mostly" free inside of it. I say "mostly" because we still have to pay a tiny amount for each network port on each end, some electricity, etc. But it's negligible compared to paying for bandwidth at market rates.