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Slight miscalculation which should have been obvious: "For example, Backblaze B2’s free operations threshold is capped at 2,500 a day, and if R2 simply let you
by heipei 5y ago
Slight miscalculation which should have been obvious:
"For example, Backblaze B2’s free operations threshold is capped at 2,500 a day, and if R2 simply let you make a GetObject request every second of every day, that would be something like 86,400 FREE daily Gets, which would cost ~$335 daily on B2 or $122,000 a year."
Backblaze B2 Class B operations are priced at $0.004 per 10k operations which the author did not take into account, so the calculation above is off by a factor of 10,000. The real cost for 1 GET per second for a whole year on Backblaze B2 is $12.59.
- cloudfalcon 5y agoYou're right. This is a silly mistake on my part in rushing out this piece. I apologize. Thanks for pointing this out -I've since taken out the paragraph.
- _zoltan_ 5y agowhy rush a piece?
- dboreham 5y agoMore clicks?
- cloudfalcon 5y agoCloudflare R2 is topical right now - that was the motivation. Not saying it was the right strategy to do so (clearly not given the mistake).
- _hilro 5y agoDid you just silently edit out that part and not put some text noting your previous mistake? You even have a section of the article called "Hacker News Comment Responses"! Then you failed to mention the OP comment you're replying to: That is very bad form and untrustworthy behaviour.
- cloudfalcon 5y agoI'm following good form. No silent edits were made. There has been an Author's Note in that paragraph the entire time since the change acknowledging the miscalculation.
- sam0x17 5y agoI wonder how this compares with Wasabi. I was very bullish on them a few years ago.
- nightpool 5y agoWasabi has the most horrendous reliability record of any provider I've ever worked with. Uploads will be broken for days at a time with no status posted, downloads will flake, it's just not a competitive solution for consumer-facing storage.
- sparc24 5y agoWasabi is a clown show brought to you by the Carbonite guys. I wouldn't trust it at all given their track record.
- jjeaff 5y agoWhat is bad about their track record?
- whoknowswhat11 5y agoI've tried a bunch of the cheap / unlimited players. Any claim that they offer what S3 offers is usually totally and completely false. Either bandwidth is not actually unlimited or its terrible quality, or storage is not reliable or or or. With S3 I've never had a problem with data loss. Eventual consistency stuff was totally annoying back when that was the way they did things, though that was documented. Dev support is strong if you are paying for it if you have a config issue. WORM support is great in key areas (regulatory, ransomeware protection for backup durability etc).
- brightball 5y agoThere are cheap players and there is Cloudflare. Cloudflare is on a very different level.
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