Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?
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Want to send archive copies of some of our most valuable servers/data for offsite storage. This is so i can sleep better at night, as well as for complying with customer requirements.
I went to BackBlaze' cost calculator, and being very generous with the numbers(meaning we would use way less than what im putting in as values) the calculator says we would be paying
That is so cheap i dont even need to get permission to buy it. Thoughts? We would only be sending copies of sql, crm, exchange, www and a wiki for now. -
Yup, really is.
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@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
Yup, really is.
Then how painfully slow is it? There has to be a tradeoff somewhere.
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I just need this for archiving, in case the building burns/earthquake and everything needs to be rebuilt. Onsite backups still would be used except in case of total loss.
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@RojoLoco said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
Yup, really is.
Then how painfully slow is it? There has to be a tradeoff somewhere.
It's not super fast, but not really supposed to be.
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@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
@RojoLoco said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
Yup, really is.
Then how painfully slow is it? There has to be a tradeoff somewhere.
It's not super fast, but not really supposed to be.
Sure, but is it usable? If so, this becomes a serious contender for the new DR plan I'm devising.
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@RojoLoco said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
@RojoLoco said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
Yup, really is.
Then how painfully slow is it? There has to be a tradeoff somewhere.
It's not super fast, but not really supposed to be.
Sure, but is it usable? If so, this becomes a serious contender for the new DR plan I'm devising.
I haven't used it at any scale at all. But backing up normal documents with their cli tool was fairly performant.
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@RojoLoco said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
@RojoLoco said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
Yup, really is.
Then how painfully slow is it? There has to be a tradeoff somewhere.
It's not super fast, but not really supposed to be.
Sure, but is it usable? If so, this becomes a serious contender for the new DR plan I'm devising.
It's very usable. Very easy and cheap.
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@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
It's very usable. Very easy and cheap.
The CLI tool is very good too
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Yep their storage price is stupidly cheap. It's just storage. If you need you could pay them to ship you a drive too.
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I thought AWS S3 was like $0.02/GB/mo when I was checking. So at that price with the initial upload of 1TB, plus a monthly upload of 1TB, I'm still not coming remotely close to $1,700/year.
Any idea how they are factoring that pricing? Was looking here: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
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Yes, it is really this cheap. The only difference is they charge $5 per terabyte. Speed is okay.
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@BBigford Amazon S3 does not tell you how much expense you do when you download from their server data. So say put an amount of data going out on any of the S3 or Glacier services and you will see your monthly payments go up substantially.
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@aaronstuder Awesome!!
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Yes, B2 is a good and reliable product. Use it all the time.
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@aaronstuder said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
That is awesome! Better and better every day.
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@aaronstuder said in Backblaze B2, is it really this cheap?:
"We are thrilled to announce that, effective immediately, we are reducing the price of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage downloads from $0.05 to $0.02 per GB. What’s more, the first gigabyte of data downloaded each day is still free."
That last sentence, great! I didn't know they already let you download the first GB free, does any other provider offer the same sort of thing?
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@travisdh1 not that I know of
