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I fully admit that 301s / 308s have problems in practice that means they need to be treated very carefully, but in theory they could be utilized here and you wo

I fully admit that 301s / 308s have problems in practice that means they need to be treated very carefully, but in theory they could be utilized here and you wouldn't need to do 6 requests, only 4. Though I really don't get what all this jerking off is about. I use B2. It took me like 2 fucking minutes to get working. It's ridiculously simple. My concern is more that they'll be acquired by some shitty company and I'll have to migrate off of them. It's not how long it takes me to setup an API.

brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze. > It took me like 2 fucking minutes to get working. It's ridiculously simple. I'm so glad you said that, thank you! Our confidence is sometimes shaken when a customer says they would prefer it to be S3 compatible. It honestly isn't that hard, I always wonder what the disconnect in communication is. > My concern is more that they'll be acquired by some shitty company Backblaze is not for sale. And definitely not for sale to shitty companies. And even for non-shitty companies Backblaze is not for sale at prices any company would probably want to spend (or could justify to their board). I don't know if this is common knowledge but Backblaze is employee owned. We never took any significant VC funding, so the only people with voting rights on the board of directors are the original 5 Backblaze founders (including myself). We like what we are doing and we COMPLETELY control our own destiny and work environment. Literally nobody (except customers) can tell us what to do, how to price our products, or what features to build. Backblaze is a fun company to work at, and we all make a good living. So it would be inordinately expensive to buy us out just to put us out of business and dissolve our tight-knit group here and ruin all our fun. Our plan is to stay independent forever. More background: the original 5 Backblaze founders have worked together for 19 years and have worked together at three startups. The first two starts were acquired by shitty companies. I do not want that to happen ever again, as long as I live. You know what it is like spending YEARS of your life building something beautiful, then hand it over to a shitty company and stand helplessly by while the beautiful product is first twisted, mangled, then withers and dies? It sucks. It sucks dead bunnies through a bent straw. So Backblaze was born different. Backblaze was born LEAN. The original founders and a few demi-partners going 18 months without salary, and another year on minimum wage, so that we wouldn't lose control of it. Employee-owned. Employee-run. Not. For. Sale.
- 3pt14159 8y ago
  That's great news Brian. I tell every developer I meet to use DigitalOcean for servers, iwantmyname for domains, and Backblaze for backups and other bulk storage. I know DO has an offering, but it seems wiser to me to have a completely separate company for backups. Keep up the good work!

brianwski 8y ago

Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze. > It took me like 2 fucking minutes to get working. It's ridiculously simple. I'm so glad you said that, thank you! Our confidence is sometimes shaken when a customer says they would prefer it to be S3 compatible. It honestly isn't that hard, I always wonder what the disconnect in communication is. > My concern is more that they'll be acquired by some shitty company Backblaze is not for sale. And definitely not for sale to shitty companies. And even for non-shitty companies Backblaze is not for sale at prices any company would probably want to spend (or could justify to their board). I don't know if this is common knowledge but Backblaze is employee owned. We never took any significant VC funding, so the only people with voting rights on the board of directors are the original 5 Backblaze founders (including myself). We like what we are doing and we COMPLETELY control our own destiny and work environment. Literally nobody (except customers) can tell us what to do, how to price our products, or what features to build. Backblaze is a fun company to work at, and we all make a good living. So it would be inordinately expensive to buy us out just to put us out of business and dissolve our tight-knit group here and ruin all our fun. Our plan is to stay independent forever. More background: the original 5 Backblaze founders have worked together for 19 years and have worked together at three startups. The first two starts were acquired by shitty companies. I do not want that to happen ever again, as long as I live. You know what it is like spending YEARS of your life building something beautiful, then hand it over to a shitty company and stand helplessly by while the beautiful product is first twisted, mangled, then withers and dies? It sucks. It sucks dead bunnies through a bent straw. So Backblaze was born different. Backblaze was born LEAN. The original founders and a few demi-partners going 18 months without salary, and another year on minimum wage, so that we wouldn't lose control of it. Employee-owned. Employee-run. Not. For. Sale.

3pt14159 8y ago
That's great news Brian. I tell every developer I meet to use DigitalOcean for servers, iwantmyname for domains, and Backblaze for backups and other bulk storage. I know DO has an offering, but it seems wiser to me to have a completely separate company for backups. Keep up the good work!