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Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > currency conversion is expensive Backblaze probably won't accept other currencies in 2018. However, we definitely have hea

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > currency conversion is expensive Backblaze probably won't accept other currencies in 2018. However, we definitely have heard about this issue, and we have a feature in the works to allow you to "load up" your account with an arbitrary amount of pre-paid cash so that you pay ONE transaction fee to deposit (as an example) £250 pounds at once (incurring the £2.50 conversion fee exactly once) and then as Backblaze deducts from this account balance instead of a credit card there are zero transaction fees. Would that help? The OTHER reason this is a requested feature is some customers want a "reserve fund" to be used if their Credit Card payment fails, as a hedge against Backblaze deleting their data for lack of payment.

kemonocode 9y ago
> However, we definitely have heard about this issue, and we have a feature in the works to allow you to "load up" your account with an arbitrary amount of pre-paid cash At last. I actually did abandon B2 over DO's Spaces due to the lack of this feature, despite the far more competitive pricing on your end. That, and the lack of AWS API support, but that was mostly related to my particular use case, which was the need to mount cloud storage as disk partitions using s3ql which mainly supports AWS, OpenStack and compatible services. It does have preliminary B2 support [0] but it was really hacky and I ended up losing data because of it. Having a prepaid credit option and the option to use PayPal for such payments like DO does would have tipped me towards Backblaze's favor to the point of trying to fix s3ql's B2 support, though. ;) [0] https://hub.docker.com/r/zdce/s3ql-b2/ https://hub.docker.com/r/zdce/s3ql-b2/
- bburhans 9y ago
  Have you looked at using a s3-compatible proxy like minio? They support b2, but I haven't tested it myself.
- daviesliu 9y ago
  JuiceFS [1] could be a replacement for S3QL, which has better support for B2, can also be mounted on multiple machines in the same time. If you don't have more than 1TiB, JuiceFS is totally free. Disclaimer: Founder of JuiceFS here.
  - nilayp 9y ago
    Nilay from Backblaze here. This is awesome! Can you reach out to us via this form? I'd love to learn more about your software and list it on our website. Just mention I sent you here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/contact-sales.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/contact-sales.html

kemonocode 9y ago

> However, we definitely have heard about this issue, and we have a feature in the works to allow you to "load up" your account with an arbitrary amount of pre-paid cash At last. I actually did abandon B2 over DO's Spaces due to the lack of this feature, despite the far more competitive pricing on your end. That, and the lack of AWS API support, but that was mostly related to my particular use case, which was the need to mount cloud storage as disk partitions using s3ql which mainly supports AWS, OpenStack and compatible services. It does have preliminary B2 support [0] but it was really hacky and I ended up losing data because of it. Having a prepaid credit option and the option to use PayPal for such payments like DO does would have tipped me towards Backblaze's favor to the point of trying to fix s3ql's B2 support, though. ;) [0] https://hub.docker.com/r/zdce/s3ql-b2/ https://hub.docker.com/r/zdce/s3ql-b2/

bburhans 9y ago
Have you looked at using a s3-compatible proxy like minio? They support b2, but I haven't tested it myself.
daviesliu 9y ago
JuiceFS [1] could be a replacement for S3QL, which has better support for B2, can also be mounted on multiple machines in the same time. If you don't have more than 1TiB, JuiceFS is totally free. Disclaimer: Founder of JuiceFS here.
- nilayp 9y ago
  Nilay from Backblaze here. This is awesome! Can you reach out to us via this form? I'd love to learn more about your software and list it on our website. Just mention I sent you here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/contact-sales.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/contact-sales.html