brianwski

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by brianwski 8y ago
> You might be surprised how slow it is in many areas of the US, let alone the world. I know there are digital deserts. (I just made that name up.) But one thing I'm curious about -> often when the only CONSUMER ISP in one area
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > please add ability to comment on snapshots Actually, very very quietly as part of the 6.0 release (4 days ago), we now allow you to "name your snapshot". While this is not a comment, and you c
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by brianwski 8y ago
I wouldn't advocate for breaking any laws or stealing anything that doesn't belong to you, but a whole lot of places have "totally unused bandwidth" and it won't hurt them at all financially for you to use 1/4
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > When a drive fails, it's effectively a brick with no terabytes. Interesting factoid: that isn't always true. What you describe is actually the CLEANEST type of failure, the drive suddenly bec
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > Good thing they charge me $0.94 a month for my B2 storage. We thank you for your business! :-) The absolute beauty of Backblaze B2 (or Amazon S3 or Azure) is that we can build a storage system at scal
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased. :-) > If you have terabytes to back up, are there still any backup services left that'll let you ship them a drive for a faster initial backup? Backblaze offers a "Backblaze
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > $33,500 if you bought them from amazon right now About half of all of the money that flows into Backblaze from customers gets spent on the datacenter, and the largest component of that is drives. I thi
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > Do BB publish pricing of what they paid for drives? ... a TB/$/Failure rate Thank you, that is EXACTLY the correct way to look at the failure statistics! So many people seem to sort the list
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > What does Backblaze do with all its older hard drives? Resell? Recycle? If the drive is still working (like you can read and write to it) when we cycle it out, we securely wipe it and then sometimes res
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by brianwski 8y ago
CrashPlan is a good service and the founders are good people, and I always liked them. Especially their "peer to peer" product. About a year ago they abandoned the consumer market so their products are a bit more expensive but sh
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze so I'm biased. :-) > Backblaze is a low cost service for cheap customers. AWS and GCP are "enterprise" services. I agree. This is accurate. Backblaze is a reasonable choice for customers
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze. > It took me like 2 fucking minutes to get working. It's ridiculously simple. I'm so glad you said that, thank you! Our confidence is sometimes shaken when a customer says they would prefer it
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by brianwski 8y ago
> An API call that retrieves the address of another machine to contact is functionally the same thing as an HTTP redirect If you are only uploading exactly one file -> yes. But if you are uploading 1 million files, a redirect system w
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by brianwski 8y ago
> Generally speaking, it's very inefficient to deal with numerous small files because of latency I want to second this. Backblaze's Personal Backup uses the same storage that B2 uses, and what we see is that tiny 10 byte files
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by brianwski 8y ago
Oh, Backblaze B2 DOES charge for transactions, but it is not intended to make Backblaze a profit, only to recoup the cost of the transactions. You can see a complete list of what each and every API call costs here: https://www
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by brianwski 8y ago
> Their bill was $1885.43, not $436.77 I understand, I was comparing the storage cost. Backblaze publishes a cost calculator here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html (scroll down, it is half way
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by brianwski 8y ago
> Surely a trivial cost. So we both agree it is more than zero cost? Backblaze saves that cost passes on the savings to customers. I'm not sure what the exact costs would be because Backblaze did not implement it that way. > a f
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the author of the blog post. > Care that explain why it’s substantially more than a few round robin’d smart reverse proxies moving data to the correct storage node? That is exactly what it is. Plus making sure the n
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > They also use Reed-Solomon and split data into multiple pieces to store on multiple servers. So they need all those "load balancing"-like nodes anyway Yes. We definitely do "load balanci
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > We do make heavy use of the S3 versioning API to let us roll back files, lifecycle rules for past revisions and have never been able to find any service which offers the same amount of functionality wit
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > Does Backblaze really want this sort of traffic profile? Oh heck yes, we would very much like your business! :-) Backblaze only charges you $0.005/GByte/Month so your $436.77 bill would go do
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by brianwski 8y ago
I really want to do more JavaScript support and examples and SDKs for B2 (both web page and server side). While I think of myself as a 'C' programmer, the GIGANTIC amount of work being done in JavaScript nowadays is just amazing,
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I am the author of the blog post and work at Backblaze. > surprised that AWS, GCP, or Azure haven't acquired Backblaze by now Sometimes press/customers/people ask us how many customers has Backblaze "conve
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the original author of the blog post. :-) > In fact, S3's REST API requires callers to follow HTTP redirects... Yes. Let's take the example of uploading 3 small files. With S3, every upload call must sta
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > Backblaze doesn't seem to offer either for non-C++/Swift languages. On each of the API web pages there are code examples for the following languages: 1) cUrl, 2) Java, 3) Python, 4) Swift, 5)
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by brianwski 8y ago
> BB and S3 both have eleven 9 durability, how much does using both increase this? Putting your data in either Backblaze B2 or Amazon S3 suffer from other failure modes outside of the durability of the raw system. For example, let'
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze and live in California. > 30MBit/s sustained for 3 days isn't unreasonable for a business We (Backblaze) are seeing more and more consumer internet connections in the USA with 20 Mbit/sec up
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by brianwski 8y ago
A number of years ago a Gmail "insider" that I know admitted they had lost customer emails and their policy (at that time at least) was to simply ignore it and not tell anybody because most customers never notice if it is a small
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by brianwski 8y ago
Good link! I've both forwarded it on, and will study it when I have some time later.
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the author of the blog post. :-) > well written and refreshingly transparent Thank you! In the interests of full transparency, the blog post was a collaborative affair and was proof read and edited for clarity by se

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