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"B2 Cloud Storage Opens Public Beta"
"B2 Cloud Storage Opens Public Beta"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-cl...e-public-beta/ "In case you’re new to B2 Cloud Storage, it is a service that enables developers, IT people, and everyone else to store data in the cloud. Often referred to as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or object storage, it provides the ability to store, retrieve and/or share data and scale up and down, while only paying for what you use. B2 offers cloud storage similar to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure storage and Google Cloud Storage – but at a much lower cost." Lynn |
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"B2 Cloud Storage Opens Public Beta"
On 12/15/2015 01:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"B2 Cloud Storage Opens Public Beta" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-cl...e-public-beta/ "In case you’re new to B2 Cloud Storage, it is a service that enables developers, IT people, and everyone else to store data in the cloud. Often referred to as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or object storage, it provides the ability to store, retrieve and/or share data and scale up and down, while only paying for what you use. B2 offers cloud storage similar to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure storage and Google Cloud Storage – but at a much lower cost." It may well be cheaper than its competitors, but it's still far too expensive to use as a backup for the data stored on my NAS box (especially if I actually needed to retrieve the data), compared to just building a second NAS machine to backup the first. And with only a 4Mb/s upload speed available from my ISP (and probably a monthly cap as well -- although I've never hit it), it would be impractical even if it were affordable. Perce |
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"B2 Cloud Storage Opens Public Beta"
Lynn McGuire wrote:
"B2 Cloud Storage Opens Public Beta" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-cl...e-public-beta/ "In case you’re new to B2 Cloud Storage, it is a service that enables developers, IT people, and everyone else to store data in the cloud. Often referred to as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or object storage, it provides the ability to store, retrieve and/or share data and scale up and down, while only paying for what you use. B2 offers cloud storage similar to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure storage and Google Cloud Storage – but at a much lower cost." You neglected to mention price. But then you neglected to add any comment of your own. Personal plan: $5/month Business plan: $50/year (so it's cheaper than the Personal plan) B2Cloud storage: $0.005/GB per month The B2Cloud plan might be cheaper than the Personal plan provided you store less than 1 TB of data on their server. Their plan(s) might be cheaper but then they are still a infinitely more expensive than free online storage: for me, 25 GB @ OneDrive, 15 GB @ Google Drive (*), and 50 GB @ aDrive. * Be warned that deleting files using the Google Drive client merely moves them to the Trash folder - which still counts against your quota. Their client doesn't show the Trash folder so you have to use their web client to empty the Trash folder to regain that disk quota. All the free online storage providers have much smaller disk quotas (except you can have multiple accounts) but then I do not use my OS partition as a dumping site. Movies, documents, and other data files go onto removable media. For just my data files that remain on my C: drive, the free storage sites are sufficiently large to hold all of them (in a compressed .zip backup file). I backup to the local folder and the client syncs in the backup up to server. That's okay but restores are slow (reduced downstream speed, throttling on the server). Have you ever saved a backup via Internet? Slow. That's because your upstream bandwidth is far smaller than your downstream bandwidth. Have you ever restored a backup via Internet? You might have 50 Mbps (6.25 MBps) downstream bandwidth but the server will throttle the connection (they have limited server resources, share that with lots of users, and want existing connections to have some response). Restores from Internet sources is excrutiatingly slow and why users will only store data files, not an image of their OS partition. |
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"B2 Cloud Storage Opens Public Beta"
On 2015-12-15, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"In case you’re new to B2 Cloud Storage, it is a service that enables developers, IT people, and everyone else to store data in the cloud. No thanks. I prefer to retain control over my data, I'm not giving it over to the likes of those guys. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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"B2 Cloud Storage Opens Public Beta"
VanguardLH wrote:
Personal plan: $5/month Business plan: $50/year (so it's cheaper than the Personal plan) But they have their own client software that is "not compatible with any type of server OS including SBS." So why do they bother having a business plan? And why do they bother having an affiliate program for consultants? Looks pointless. -- |
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