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by immibis 435 days ago
I get the impression that business has always been about being the best schmoozer more than about having the best product.

BTW at Hetzner you can rent servers with very large (hundred of TB) non-redundant storage for an effective price of about $1.50/TB/month. If you want to build a cloud storage product, that seems like a good starting point - of course, once you take into account redundancy, spare capacity, and paying yourself, the prices you charge to your customers will end up closer to the price of Backblaze at a minimum.
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no_wizard 435 days ago
>I get the impression that business has always been about being the best schmoozer more than about having the best product

and thus, market efficiency feels like a myth. This feels most true when it comes to cloud services. They're way overpriced in multiple different common cases at the big providers

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singhrac 435 days ago
Yes, this is pretty much what Hetzner must have built with their object storage - and they get to 5 EUR/month, so really close to Backblaze pricing.
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