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by greedo 1036 days ago
Ugh.

2019 Backblaze increases monthly prices 20%.

2021 Backblaze increases monthly prices 17%.

2023 Backblaze increases monthly prices 29%.

Boiling frog scenario for sure. And I recommend BB to all my friends and family, but at $108/year, I'm starting to get close to just using Time Machine and an external SSD.
1 comments
riku_iki 1036 days ago
> Boiling frog scenario for sure.

they are currently very profit negative (25m revenue with 14m loss), so they still need hike prices very significantly to catch up..

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greedo 1036 days ago
I'm not sure that they will survive the price hikes they'll need to keep imposing.

Which is really sad since they offered pretty good service and performance. I've already cut my home usage down from four Macs to one. I'll probably add another external drive to one of my Macs and use Arq for backing up the drives. It's not off-site backup, but all my important stuff is backed up off-site through other methodologies.

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