I ended up going with AWS s3 for now. I'm under four gigs for my server as
we stand and I have free tier for a year. I'll reassess later. May even
roll my own open stack or something or look into colocation. I just need a
metric assload of storage and a pipe going to it.

Any one wanna rent me a 1u spot in a data center somewhere?

On Oct 25, 2016 15:03, "Todd Millecam" <tyggna@gmail.com> wrote:

> Backblaze has two creative advantages that keep their costs low:
>
> 1) they do their own metal fabrication and make their own server chassis
> 2) they use solely consumer-grade commodity hard drives
>
> As a result, 2TB of data storage for them is $50 with a MTBF of 3 years.
> I don't believe they do any mirroring, just parody as well.  So, unlike
> many other backup providers there is an actual risk that your data could
> disappear due to multiple drive failures.
>
> However, these guys are the big data of hard drive failures and basically
> publish who's the best at reliability in the hdd realm (HGST has been king
> for a while).  They do pretty good work with their arrays.
>
> Also, they've open-sourced their 4U chassis design (it's call the
> blazepod) and you can build one yourself (stores about 250TB of data when
> built) for about $300-500 plus the cost of drives.  Seek time is awful, but
> this is solely a cold-storage solution.
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Anon Anon <lokotejones@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am hearing that they throttle the shit out of up and down. Plus some
>> mysterious hidden fee for downloads. Word of mouth from another programmer.
>>
>> On Oct 25, 2016 2:26 PM, "Tom Roche" <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Stephen Partington[1]
>>> > https://secure.backblaze.com/buy.htm
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate someone enlightening me regarding Backblaze's business
>>> model. Maybe I'm just a cynical bastard, but when I see ...
>>>
>>> https://secure.backblaze.com/buy.htm
>>> > Unlimited Data for your Mac and PC. [5 $/mo, 50 $/yr.] Prices are per
>>> computer.
>>>
>>> ... my bullshit meter pegs. I'm guessing Backblaze's reasoning/practice
>>> is like that pioneered by various ISPs and telcos who promise "unlimited
>>> data" transfers to users: if any particular user's data transfers exceed
>>> some threshold, throttle their data rate. A data storage provider would
>>> modify that to something like, "sure, you can *try* to store more than
>>> [threshold quantity] of data here, but your backup transfer rate will go to
>>> hell, and restore? fuggedaboudit."
>>>
>>> Or am I just ignorant of some great technological advance made, and of
>>> the service to humanity provided, by Backblaze?
>>>
>>> HTH, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
>>>
>>> [1]: http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20161025.155052.ef4
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