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It'd be interesting to find out if it's acceptably fast when proxying via a cloud provider.
by jonatron 8y ago
It'd be interesting to find out if it's acceptably fast when proxying via a cloud provider.
- gsibble 8y agoHere is the CTO of Backblaze addressing speed questions earlier today: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8u40xa/i_wrote_a_library_for_backblaze_b2_75_cheaper/e1codwz https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8u40xa/i_wrote_a_li...
- voltagex_ 8y agoMaybe I misunderstand his point, but isn't transferring data from Australia to the US or reverse always going to be slower due to the speed of light? What he's said doesn't negate the fact that he's only got one POP.
- gsibble 8y agoI'm not sure how many POPs they have so I do agree with that. I'm not shilling for B2 and have no affiliation with them. I've had good performance them but am US based.
- glenneroo 8y agoMy individual connections to B2 are slow (200-500 KB/s) coming from Europe but that's why the multi-threaded option makes B2 very usable.
- monort 8y agoSpeed of light affects latency, not throughput. TCP works bad with large delays, that's why it's recommended to use several TCP connections to saturate the link.
- voltagex_ 8y agoYeah, I can never remember how TCP window size + latency affects transfer speed but you're right.
- voltagex_ 8y agoDoesn't that destroy the value of B2 in that you're going to pay Amazon or whoever's egress costs?
- gsibble 8y agoNot if you're only egressing to B2 once to save and then egressing many times from B2 to serve.
- namibj 8y agoIn that case, consider packet, egress to B2 is free. They claim a good network, but I didn't test (yet).
- voltagex_ 8y agoYou use the SJC1 option in packet.net to get the free ingress/egress. It's slowish single threaded but 100-200 megabit is easy with 4 threads.