Disclaimer: 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

Disclaimer: 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.