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The security issues are disconcerting. And their attitude is not encouraging at all. What are some decent alternatives to Backblaze?
by LordAtlas 6y ago
The security issues are disconcerting. And their attitude is not encouraging at all.
What are some decent alternatives to Backblaze?
- sneak 6y agoYou shouldn't really worry about object storage security, and your approach to using it should be as if everything you store in/on it will be published in the newspaper tomorrow.
- rsync 6y ago"What are some decent alternatives to Backblaze?" If only there were a cloud storage provider that gave you an empty UNIX filesystem to do anything you want with, using any tool that worked over stock-standard SSH. If only ...
- sneak 6y agoTo be apples-to-apples, you (2-2.5c/GB) do charge 5x what B2 charges (0.5c/GB) (for just the storage part) for small customers. For a lot of people, a 5x price difference disqualifies the term "alternative", although you are in line with industry/S3 pricing. It's just that Backblaze has specifically differentiated by being super duper cheap. It's why I use them for my personal projects.
- Terretta 6y agoAgree. It’s relatively straightforward to underprice ‘brand name’ cloud object storage, S3 and the like. rsync is likely making a margin choice here rather than marketshare choice.
- rsync 6y agoFor people who, like you, may not be aware - there is a "HN Readers" discount as well as other (.edu, FOSS author, etc.) ways to chop the headline price down substantially ...
- LordAtlas 6y agoYour snark aside, I pay $5 per month for Backblaze to backup my entire PC. I would pay many multiples more for rsync.
- patentatt 6y agoJust an aside, but I found that I was overpaying for backblaze backup. I switched to duplicati backed by backblaze b2 and went from $5/mo. to more like $1.70/mo. for the backup. As always though, YMMV.