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As a developer that supports B2 (I write ExpanDrive) I think it’s great that they are moving on from an API that doesn’t expose any extra value. That being sai

As a developer that supports B2 (I write ExpanDrive) I think it’s great that they are moving on from an API that doesn’t expose any extra value. That being said, I wish B2 performance was better. Throughput is dramatically slower than S3.

eyegor 6y ago
What region are you moving from/to? Last I checked, b2 only exists in datacenters on the US west coast.
- hemancuso 6y ago
  It remains the case even if you’re only a few ms away.
- budmang 6y ago
  (backblaze ceo here) We also have a region in Europe: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european-data-center/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european...
  - karambir 6y ago
    Please consider an Asia/Pacific data center. I am from India and my company was not able to use B2 due to high response times even from European DC. Even a DC in Singapore will be helpful for us. - Thankful Personal Backup Customer
    - tgtweak 6y ago
      Bandwidth in asiapac is very expensive for non-incumbents and India is no exception. I find it bizarre how in India you can get 100GB of LTE for a few dollars but cdn bandwidth can cost content providers more than that - which is absurd.
      - karambir 6y ago
        Mobile broadband is witnessing intense competition in grabbing customers as millions of rural Indians are coming online. This started with a Petro-chemical billionaire starting Jio Network and giving free unlimited 4G data for a year(his company has 300million subscribers now). Already 4 networks have exited the market and 3rd & 4th largest networks(Vodafone and Idea) have combined due to cash crunch. Airtel(earlier largest) has been raising outside money in hopes that it can survive the low prices. So there are only 4 networks remaining. Only recently they started increasing prices. That billionaire is also going into Fibre(purchased his bankrupt bother company's infrastructure), maybe we'll see that competition extend to DC and interconnects.
- celicaraptor 6y ago
  They have an Amsterdam Datacenter https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european-data-center/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european...
js4ever 6y ago
B2 pricing is sooo attractive ... But I have been stopped by the much lower performance compared to S3 ... So unfortunately I can confirm this point :(
christophilus 6y ago
When you say performance, do you mean upload, download, or both? I can deal with poorer upload performance, and mitigate poorer download performance by leveraging a decent CDN like Cloudflare.

eyegor 6y ago

What region are you moving from/to? Last I checked, b2 only exists in datacenters on the US west coast.

hemancuso 6y ago
It remains the case even if you’re only a few ms away.
budmang 6y ago
(backblaze ceo here) We also have a region in Europe: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european-data-center/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european...
- karambir 6y ago
  Please consider an Asia/Pacific data center. I am from India and my company was not able to use B2 due to high response times even from European DC. Even a DC in Singapore will be helpful for us. - Thankful Personal Backup Customer
  - tgtweak 6y ago
    Bandwidth in asiapac is very expensive for non-incumbents and India is no exception. I find it bizarre how in India you can get 100GB of LTE for a few dollars but cdn bandwidth can cost content providers more than that - which is absurd.
    - karambir 6y ago
      Mobile broadband is witnessing intense competition in grabbing customers as millions of rural Indians are coming online. This started with a Petro-chemical billionaire starting Jio Network and giving free unlimited 4G data for a year(his company has 300million subscribers now). Already 4 networks have exited the market and 3rd & 4th largest networks(Vodafone and Idea) have combined due to cash crunch. Airtel(earlier largest) has been raising outside money in hopes that it can survive the low prices. So there are only 4 networks remaining. Only recently they started increasing prices. That billionaire is also going into Fibre(purchased his bankrupt bother company's infrastructure), maybe we'll see that competition extend to DC and interconnects.
celicaraptor 6y ago
They have an Amsterdam Datacenter https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european-data-center/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european...

js4ever 6y ago

B2 pricing is sooo attractive ... But I have been stopped by the much lower performance compared to S3 ... So unfortunately I can confirm this point :(

christophilus 6y ago

When you say performance, do you mean upload, download, or both? I can deal with poorer upload performance, and mitigate poorer download performance by leveraging a decent CDN like Cloudflare.