[jeroenhd]

Backblaze is very cheap and has several "don't overload our system" clauses in their terms and conditions.

They're cheap and reliable, that generally comes at the risk of early termination. I don't think you can have a cheap, reliable, unlimited service; pick two at most.

[jsiepkes]

Isn't everything metered with Backblaze (ie. no unlimited)? I think only things such as delete aren't metered. But in order to delete something you must have first uploaded it (which is metered).

If everything is metered it seems kind of odd to complain about a lot of activity. Since it's literally the thing you make money with.

[smileybarry]

They probably meant their B2 storage service, which is like S3 and bills for storage, egress, some operations, etc. That’s one service I wouldn’t expect to have some cancellation for overload in place. You’re using a token anyway, why not just rate-limit you instead?

[manishsharan]

Blackblaze B2 is supposed to be AWS S3 competitor. S3 is simply unbreakable. If Blackblaze intends to compete with S3, they can't complain about load stress on their B2.And they can't rate limit either.

[jsjohnst]

> S3 is simply unbreakable

Minor nitpick, but this is categorically not true. As a customer, one who proactively worked with AWS AMs, SAs, and S3 engineers directly before making the change, I still took down S3 by just changing how new files were stored in our S3 bucket. Yes, this S3 bucket was at the time the largest bucket (based on number of files), but still not “simply unbreakable”.

[jquery]

Indeed. If a customer tries to backup a petabyte of data on the base plan (because it’s “unlimited”) and they get the boot, they really shouldn’t be that surprised. Wouldn’t really compare it to OP’s situation, where they got an assurance in writing they were in good standing, and didn’t appear to be blocked for violating ToS.

[lights0123]

"Token" hints at everything-is-metered B2, not their unlimited backup plan.