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Our Online Backup service is primarily for backing up computers, but Backblaze B2 is used for a wide variety of things including origin-stores, and those use-cases are pretty in-line with what folks use Azure and GCS for - so should be pret
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Yev from Backblaze here -> We charge $0.01/gb for egress. With this Alliance announcement, that'll be $0.00 from Backblaze B2 to Cloudflare. We have similar partnerships in place with Packet and ServerCentral already!
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Controlling our own destiny is nice!
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Yev from Backblaze here -> It's for convenience. At the end of the post you can get a .zip with all of the images in tables!
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We're working on it! It's a bit tough since we're bootstrapped, but that is definitely a priority. We can't grow too quickly for risk of overreaching, but hopefully we're hoping we can find something soon, though no
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Yup, wiped and recycled!
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VERY good to know! Thank you!
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Yev from Backblaze here -> I believe we do send SMSs in the case of a Cap or Alert getting reached, so yes that could be possible - though I'm not sure if an SMS is part of our billing failure process - that's an interesting qu
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Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Not out yet, but we're working towards it!
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Yev from Backblaze -> Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it :D
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This might be interesting -> https://hackernoon.com/applying-medical-statistics-to-the-ba... it's more "time based" - a medical statistical model applied to our drive stats!
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That is definitely a question that a manufacturer should answer :-/ No idea!
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Yev from Backblaze here -> You'd have to look at the entire cabinet to get a better sense of the power savings. Post author Andy explains a bit more here -> http://disq.us/p/1s8psup .
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Yev from Backblaze here -> we're going to keep an eye on them and follow up on the stats so that we can eventually get there!
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Yev from Backblaze here -> if you don't want to read it, we made this handy video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgO09opx56o
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Absolutely right, we've fixed the error! Whoops!
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Probably year end :P
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Yev from Backblaze here -> the "drive days" should give you an idea of how long those were running. In the raw data you can actually go through and look for the failures and then see the drive's "time to failure"
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Yev from Backblaze here -> You won't have to wait long ;)
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We're still working on the spec so hard to say, though even if we did make you pay for it you could store it in 4 regions before hitting S3 pricing :) That said, we try to be fair in most things we do.
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Yev from Backblaze -> please stop by! :D
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Yev from Backblaze -> We've found that the majority of folks hit bottlenecks on their ends or latency issues before they hit any performance issues on our end!
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Yev from Backblaze -> that's very interesting! What was your workflow to have them request a contact for a quote? One of the things I really liked about them was that their website is similar to ours in that it's easy to see wh
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Yev from Backblaze -> Let 'em hear it! We'd love to be integrated, but as the integrator to B2 they would have to prioritize the project! QNAP is integrated with B2 in some ways already, you can take a look here -> https:&#
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> OVH managed to get them to add HubiC in there so clearly there is a way. Hope you will keep pushing them until they move on it ! And thanks for making such a great product :) They know we'd like it in there, think that OVH was the
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Yev from Backblaze -> We're just over here doing our own little thing hoping folks join in on the fun :)
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Gleb's the CEO so he'd know these things :D
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Yev from Backblaze here -> We'd LOVE for that to happen (and there's ways to make Cloud Sync work as a one-way street) but it looks like they are pushing their own C2 service for Hyper Backup - so it's looking unlikely tha
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Yev from Backblaze -> Yes! We do hope to have a location in Europe and are on the hunt for one! That said, it's a bit of a long process, so there's no ETA for now - but it's something we're actively pursuing!
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