Hacker News Reader

For me the Big Deal is Backblaze B2. Especially when fronted by Cloudflare -- zero traffic costs. Storage is cheap as far as cloud storage provider goes and traffic is decidedly the cheapest possible.

View on HN

Even for streaming of video files? I thought you had to use Cloudflares other product for that.

We tried to use B2 for storing image and video files. First byte out is very slow (as expected). We however experienced bigger issues where if you try to upload millions of files per minute in their system, it crumbles. Huge amount of errors were thrown and their support could not help.

We decided to stick with king of storage AWS S3.

> if you try to upload millions of files per minute

may I suggest this might not be a typical usecase?

Yeah, :D But when someone hands over a storage system, temptation is high to store everything on it.

Please read https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/m0gtmf/backblaze... especially https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/m0gtmf/backblaze...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com