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Backblaze B2, ingress and egress are free through Cloudflare, and it's S3 compatible. It's peanuts by comparison but I've been storing ~22TB on there for years

Backblaze B2, ingress and egress are free through Cloudflare, and it's S3 compatible. It's peanuts by comparison but I've been storing ~22TB on there for years and love it. Wasabi and Glacier would be my 2nd choices.

gruez 6y ago
>Backblaze B2, ingress and egress are free through cloudflare AFAIK cloudflare ToS prohibits you from using it as a file hosting proxy. You might not run into issues if you're transferring a few gigabytes a month, but if you're transferring multiple terabytes it's just asking for trouble. edit: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ section 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content
- rewq4321 6y ago
  You can definitely serve way more than a few GB per month through Cloudflare on the free plan. I serve tens of terabytes a month for free. If OP needs to serve hundreds of terabytes per month they may get an email asking to upgrade, but the backblaze/Cloudflare setup would probably still be the cheapest. BunnyCDN is great too.
- intergalplan 6y ago
  OTOH I've been told (by CloudFlare support, in contact with their engineers) that for their "for hosting game levels and other content" use case[1], any of their ordinary plans should be fine. I'm not... super confident in that answer, because despite that being a use case they promote on the site the terms seem a bit murkier, and the page on that use-case doesn't say much about which plan(s) they expect you to use (I'd have expected an "enterprise" plan for serving hundreds of TB of transfer of game-assets per month, but they said no, any normal plan's fine, which... I was up front with them about what our usage would look like, and they held that line, but that seems too good to be true). I haven't tested these claims yet. [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/gaming/ https://www.cloudflare.com/gaming/
philippb 6y ago
I’ve looked at them. Would love to talk to you about your usage and experience with them.
segmondy 6y ago
Definitely not backblaze. If you get a signed URL it remains valid for 24hrs and can be used over and over. If they are going through a proxy, that would be different, but I imagine they don't want that as that doubles bandwidth cost. You definitely don't want your client to be able to upload all the data they can in your bucket.
dsyrk 6y ago
Wait what?! There is a way to egress from free from Backblaze B2! That’s a big deal if true.
- nikisweeting 6y ago
  Yup, B2 egress has been free through CloudFlare for years: - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-partner-to-provide-free-data-transfer/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-part... - https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/technology-partners/backblaze/ https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/technology-partners/back... - https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/ https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/

gruez 6y ago

>Backblaze B2, ingress and egress are free through cloudflare AFAIK cloudflare ToS prohibits you from using it as a file hosting proxy. You might not run into issues if you're transferring a few gigabytes a month, but if you're transferring multiple terabytes it's just asking for trouble. edit: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ section 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content

rewq4321 6y ago
You can definitely serve way more than a few GB per month through Cloudflare on the free plan. I serve tens of terabytes a month for free. If OP needs to serve hundreds of terabytes per month they may get an email asking to upgrade, but the backblaze/Cloudflare setup would probably still be the cheapest. BunnyCDN is great too.
intergalplan 6y ago
OTOH I've been told (by CloudFlare support, in contact with their engineers) that for their "for hosting game levels and other content" use case[1], any of their ordinary plans should be fine. I'm not... super confident in that answer, because despite that being a use case they promote on the site the terms seem a bit murkier, and the page on that use-case doesn't say much about which plan(s) they expect you to use (I'd have expected an "enterprise" plan for serving hundreds of TB of transfer of game-assets per month, but they said no, any normal plan's fine, which... I was up front with them about what our usage would look like, and they held that line, but that seems too good to be true). I haven't tested these claims yet. [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/gaming/ https://www.cloudflare.com/gaming/

philippb 6y ago

I’ve looked at them. Would love to talk to you about your usage and experience with them.

segmondy 6y ago

Definitely not backblaze. If you get a signed URL it remains valid for 24hrs and can be used over and over. If they are going through a proxy, that would be different, but I imagine they don't want that as that doubles bandwidth cost. You definitely don't want your client to be able to upload all the data they can in your bucket.

dsyrk 6y ago

Wait what?! There is a way to egress from free from Backblaze B2! That’s a big deal if true.

nikisweeting 6y ago
Yup, B2 egress has been free through CloudFlare for years: - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-partner-to-provide-free-data-transfer/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-part... - https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/technology-partners/backblaze/ https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/technology-partners/back... - https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/ https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/