[sillysaurusx]

Responding to a deleted but interesting comment. Normally I wouldn't do this, but it's harmless enough:

> Backblaze B2 transfer to Cloudflare is free egress due to bandwidth alliance and Cloudflare CDN is free egress. So you already kinda have that.

Hmm... What does it mean to transfer to Cloudflare? That's interesting.

I want free egress to my Hetzner servers. (4x16TB for $79EU/mo is unbeatable, primarily because Hetzner also has unlimited free egress bandwidth.)

But if Cloudflare offers servers, I should look into that. Do they? Even if they do, what's their egress pricing?

Thanks for the tip!

(I've been wondering about B2's mysterious "computing partners" -- their computing partners get free egress, so it seems entirely plausible that Cloudflare might be one such computing partner. I just didn't realize that Cloudflare might do computing at all -- in my head, they were a proxy, not a server farm.)

[DeathArrow]

They offer a serverless platform.

If you want free egress, you can check Wasabi: https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/#three-info

[Polycryptus]

I've been using Wasabi for a project where cost is more important than anything (i.e. a side project with reasonable scale that can't accept income) and on that front it is great. (S3 costs have been atrociously high to us sometimes.) For CDN-type resources we do a Wasabi bucket with Cloudflare with caching set very high. Reliability has been the only problem; it's not awful by any means, but there are a lot more "hiccups" using it. You get what you pay for, I guess.

That said I'm looking to see if just using R2 is a big improvement. It'll cost more but the reliability and performance might be worth it for us.

[NicoJuicy]

Wasabi charges for your largest file for 3 months.

You only get "free" egress for the size of your storage.

[prirun]

Correction: Wasabi charges 3 months storage for all files. If you upload a file and immediately delete it, you pay for that storage for 3 months.

[sillysaurusx]

Thanks for pointing this out!

[prirun]

Vultr is a Backblaze compute partner. I've used both for years and never had a problem.

Another nice thing about B2 is that they have a 1GB free daily egress allowance, which is handy for backup programs. HashBackup (I'm the author) uses that for downloading and repacking backup data to optimize storage efficiency.