Startup Sessions - An inside look at Backblaze

How do you offer unlimited online back-up for $5 a month? Build your own serverWhen the guys over at Backblaze decided they wanted to do a startup that offered unlimited cloud storage backup for just $5/month, they knew they were going to have to come up with something.  Data storage providers like Amazon S3 were just way too expensive, so what did Backblaze do?  They started building their own storage pods out of commodity components.  It costs Backblaze about $117,000 to build a Petabyte cluster, while at the same time, other providers like Amazon and EMC pay almost $3 million dollars for the same amount of space.  Backblaze also gave away the design specs for these storage pods, open-sourcing them, so anybody interested could build one.  Gleb Budman, CEO of Backblaze told us the ... [http://vator.tv/n/c3c read more]

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[MinecraftCountry]

Ahh 240p we meet again...

[bergerlemur]

@BlueDog599

I think S3 and BackBlaze are sort of going after different markets.

The S3 storage, I believe, is highly redundant storage made to replace local storage, while the BackBlaze is really just supposed to be a second backup location to your storage.

So you would only really have to be worried if BackBlaze AND your computer went down before your stuff was synced. Some people are fine with the less redundancy of the backblaze cloud for the cheaper price.

[BlueDog599]

Very cool! But I have one concern is that there only backup center or are the other locations. I'm interested in using Backblaze but would feel more secure knowing my data is backed up in multiple different locations like S3 I believe.

[rpsxnu]

"bootstrap" company - i.e. what used to be a normal company before the time rich investors burned their cash on unproven flights of fancy.

[lenoat702]

the other companys  seem more reliable and secure

[MasterHasbar25]

67 tb pod, i could fill that up in a week LOL

[AdonisRouse]

im a customer

[logistix111]

How many customers do you have?