Brian from Backblaze here. > data centre visits gets expensive Early on going to the datacenter was expensive (and time consuming, the datacenter was a 1 hour

Brian from Backblaze here. > data centre visits gets expensive Early on going to the datacenter was expensive (and time consuming, the datacenter was a 1 hour drive away from the office). We had some success with training "remote hands" (the datacenter provides some basic services like rebooting servers for hourly fees). Now we employ several full time people who go to work in the datacenter (they don't even have desks at the corporate office). It makes our world SO much better and smoother now that there is enough work that they can be there full time.