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Three feedback points for B2. In case anyone from BB is reading:

- (mentioned this before) invoices need improvement. No accountant will accept this as of now. Please take a look at e.g. Digitalocean for how to do this right. I mentioned this at least 5 times to support...but nobody seems to care.

- upload speed is really bad from Europe (might be purely due to distance). Tried uploading one TB (@1.25MB/s), did around 25GB per day. Switched to a Hetzner Storage box, doing consistently 75GB per day right now.

- deleting your bucket (with data in it) requires to install a command-line tool which is really inconvenient. Took me 30 minutes+ and still threw some weird java.exception afterwards when clicking on „delete bucket“. Why not put a simple „delete“ button in the web ui?

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Thanks! We're reading, and I'm going to forward that to the B2 management team. Sorry for the hassle but glad you were able to give it a whirl!

You should see the invoices from LastPass for "Enterprise".. it's hilarious. By default they dont send anything, the invoice link from their enterprise dashboard has been broken for months (support know) and they give you some other weird login to workaround and it loads a poor html page with tables, and a button to switch what kind of tax you want the Invoice to show (VAT, GST, etc)

It's so bad.

Side note: One thing that terrifies me about B2 is the ability to make a bucket public (when it's private and intended to be). Would be nice to have some kind of lock on it to say "never private" or at least make it harder to change that opening the same settings page as other stuff.

Per-bucket keys would be nice too.

Very good points!

Btw, what is missing in the invoices?

For us to be able to move from S3 we would also need to be able to create multiple API keys where we can set what buckets they have access to.

> - upload speed is really bad from Europe (might be purely due to distance). Tried uploading one TB (@1.25MB/s), did around 25GB per day

That's really useful to know. I am looking to switch from Amazon Cloud Drive for my cloud backups (now their pricing scheme has changed) and one criteria was much faster uploads. Sounds like B2 won't be it then, shame.

I'd suggest giving it a whirl, depending on the application, you can thread the upload so might be able to work around some of the latency.

Deleting a bucket in an object store is surprisingly non-trivial. See Amazon’s UI - it works fine for small object counts but is very buggy for larger buckets.

Yea, it's definitely a pain-point. Wish we had a more elegant solution, but it's a tough problem to solve!

Try using rclone, does wonders for me.

Another vote for real invoices here.

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