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Not sure why this is more appealing than Wasabi? As far as I can see, Wasabi is cheaper, has great speeds, fantastic S3 compatibility, their dashboard is a joy

Not sure why this is more appealing than Wasabi? As far as I can see, Wasabi is cheaper, has great speeds, fantastic S3 compatibility, their dashboard is a joy to use so what is the actual "special" thing here? I mean sure, it's a good thing to have more competition but the way everyone here is describing the situation makes it seem as if Cloudflare is going to be the cheapest & the best.

NicoJuicy 5y ago
1 - Their portfolio is bigger. Making it easier for existing clients to adopt. Eg. Why a lot of companies use AWS. This product seems a good fit for their cloudflare workers. 2 - Cloudflare is going heavy on egress costs. Which they have a lot of extra opportunity costs, comparible to the big 3 cloud providers and they are putting their "weight" in good use: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance-charges-forward/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance-charges-forwa... Egress/ingress costs is also important for pricing fyi. 3 - Cloudflare has a known good reputation for their services ( eg. Uptime and costs) + an active community. ( Eg. Check their blog ) Tbh. I didn't knew Wasabi, will check them out though. 4 - Their datacenters are at the edge. Hard to compete on that physical advantage in terms of speed. Ps. Yes, I could be considered a fan, similar to AMD in the past ( still do fyi).
ukd1 5y ago
Wasabi is actually pretty great. +1 on this.
jjeaff 5y ago
My understanding with Wasabi is that it is only intended for up to 100% egress. It doesn't look like r2 has this limitation. Though I can't imagine egress is actually completely free beyond a certain point.
macromaniac 5y ago
https://wasabi.com/rcs-pricing-faq/ https://wasabi.com/rcs-pricing-faq/ >If your monthly egress data transfer is greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit for Wasabi’s free egress policy >If your use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy on a regular basis, we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service Unless I am misreading, wasabi can shut you down if your egress is high.
sliken 5y ago
I believe the minimum object retention time is 3 months, which killed it for our use case. I.e. create a file today, delete it today, and pay for it for 3 months.
- prirun 5y ago
  They also have a $5.99 minimum per month: https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059412931-How-does-Wasabi-s-monthly-minimum-storage-charge-work- https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600594...

NicoJuicy 5y ago

1 - Their portfolio is bigger. Making it easier for existing clients to adopt. Eg. Why a lot of companies use AWS. This product seems a good fit for their cloudflare workers. 2 - Cloudflare is going heavy on egress costs. Which they have a lot of extra opportunity costs, comparible to the big 3 cloud providers and they are putting their "weight" in good use: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance-charges-forward/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance-charges-forwa... Egress/ingress costs is also important for pricing fyi. 3 - Cloudflare has a known good reputation for their services ( eg. Uptime and costs) + an active community. ( Eg. Check their blog ) Tbh. I didn't knew Wasabi, will check them out though. 4 - Their datacenters are at the edge. Hard to compete on that physical advantage in terms of speed. Ps. Yes, I could be considered a fan, similar to AMD in the past ( still do fyi).

ukd1 5y ago

Wasabi is actually pretty great. +1 on this.

jjeaff 5y ago

My understanding with Wasabi is that it is only intended for up to 100% egress. It doesn't look like r2 has this limitation. Though I can't imagine egress is actually completely free beyond a certain point.

macromaniac 5y ago

https://wasabi.com/rcs-pricing-faq/ https://wasabi.com/rcs-pricing-faq/ >If your monthly egress data transfer is greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit for Wasabi’s free egress policy >If your use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy on a regular basis, we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service Unless I am misreading, wasabi can shut you down if your egress is high.

sliken 5y ago

I believe the minimum object retention time is 3 months, which killed it for our use case. I.e. create a file today, delete it today, and pay for it for 3 months.

prirun 5y ago
They also have a $5.99 minimum per month: https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059412931-How-does-Wasabi-s-monthly-minimum-storage-charge-work- https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600594...