[rsync]

"I recommend worrying about any service where you don’t pay a fee that scales with usage."

This is the issue and it is a heuristic that people need to develop.

Your provider especially your backups provider needs to have interests that are aligned with your interests.

The non-B2 portion of Backblaze has a financial incentive to keep you from using their product and to use as little of their space as possible. This is a bad, misaligned set of incentives.

On the B2 side, all of our suspicions about the (well timed) "me too" IPO have been confirmed with each and every quarterly report showing increased debt load and the classic "losing money but making up for it on volume".

Now that money isn't free anymore it's just a matter of time.

The sad part is they don't use standard, commodity JBOD enclosures so there won't even be anything useful in the fire sale :(

[mindslight]

> The sad part is they don't use standard, commodity JBOD enclosures so there won't even be anything useful in the fire sale :(

Can you elaborate on this? They mount in a standard rack and it looks like they have a backplane connected to a commodity motherboard. I'd think if you wanted it to be a JBOD you could replace the motherboard with an external SAS connector. Based on your nick I'm sure you've thought this through so I'm curious.

The only thing I see is that it looks like you have to slide the whole unit out to swap a drive, but that seems like an inconvenience rather than a show stopper.

[klodolph]

> Your provider especially your backups provider needs to have interests that are aligned with your interests.

I also think about all those cafés with free WiFi, where you buy a single coffee and take up a table for six hours while you browse Facebook and have your screenplay open in the background. I benefit, but the café doesn’t.

[justinclift]

Don't cafe's tell people to move on if they up space for large amounts of time when the place is busy?