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    Backblaze takes on Amazon S3 with dirt-cheap data storage for developers

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      Alex Sage
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      0.005 cents a gigabyte!

      http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/09/22/backblaze-takes-on-amazon-s3-with-dirt-cheap-data-storage-for-developers/

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        DustinB3403
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        That's an incredible price, I'm sending this up the chain. Might build that into our DR plan for offsite backup.

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          Dashrender
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          My biggest concern for offsite backups is simply gaining access to the data in case of the backed up system's failure. How do you get access to the data?

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            hubtechagain
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            but you can't use backblaze on servers can you?

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              scottalanmiller @hubtechagain
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              @hubtechagain said:

              but you can't use backblaze on servers can you?

              I think you are thinking of the BackBlaze backup product. This is their S3 competitor and doesn't run "on" anything. It's a storage product.

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                scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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                @anonymous said:

                0.005 cents a gigabyte!

                http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/09/22/backblaze-takes-on-amazon-s3-with-dirt-cheap-data-storage-for-developers/

                That's really quite an amazing price. Anything like ingress or egress costs to catch you like Glacier has?

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                  scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                  @Dashrender said:

                  My biggest concern for offsite backups is simply gaining access to the data in case of the backed up system's failure. How do you get access to the data?

                  This isn't a backup product. This is a storage product. B2 is a direct competitor for S3. Even the name is similar.

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                    Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by Alex Sage

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    That's really quite an amazing price. Anything like ingress or egress costs to catch you like Glacier has?

                    Free Upload. $0.05/GB Download

                    http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/09/q-CGKpej0bK_sP1Uc_dk_su4QRHZwy9zQ3cplZlIkzk.jpeg

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                      scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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                      @anonymous said:

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      That's really quite an amazing price. Anything like ingress or egress costs to catch you like Glacier has?

                      Free Import / $0.05/GB Download

                      http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/09/q-CGKpej0bK_sP1Uc_dk_su4QRHZwy9zQ3cplZlIkzk.jpeg

                      That makes it far more of a Glacier competitor than S3, I think.

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                        Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        That makes it far more of a Glacier competitor than S3, I think.

                        No..... You can access you data instantly, and according to the article it is much cheaper then Glacier.

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                          scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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                          @anonymous said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          That makes it far more of a Glacier competitor than S3, I think.

                          No..... You can access you data instantly, and according to the article it is much cheaper then Glacier.

                          $.05 per GB download isn't cheap for live storage usage.

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                            scottalanmiller
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                            Glacier, for example, is $0.007 per GB to store and free to download and upload costs $.05 per 1,000 requests, which isn't too bad. You pay to store, not to recover, which is nice.

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