Note that Duplicati by default does do sampled file download verification, and if you have space churn, compacting will do additional downloads and uploads that will cost more if you go with archive class… I don’t use Google Cloud Storage, so might be wrong, but it’s sometimes seemed like more of a billing consideration based on the intended access pattern than a technical hurt. Which at least for access sounds less awful for Duplicati than archives that need lots of work and time.Īmazon S3 does have a programmatic way to unfreeze cold archives, but Duplicati doesn’t support it. You get the same experience as our hot storage options Access and management is performed through the same consistent set of APIs used by our other Cloud Storage classes, with full integration into Object Lifecycle Management. The Archive class provides almost instantaneous (milliseconds) access to your data when needed. Fascinating stuff, and if you’re as interested as we are in what goes on behind the standard corporate veil, read Backblaze’s post.What storage is that? Put your archive data on ice with new storage offering is Google Cloud Storage. Plus, Backblaze calculated the two-year growth rate in new customers at 42%. Backblaze is now sharing the fact that the churn rate-the number of customers who leave-increased only from 5.38% to 5.75%, an increase of 7%. The $1 per month price hike finally happened in February 2019. Remember, additional customers meant more revenue but also higher storage costs, increasing the pressure to raise prices eventually. In the end, it took a full year for Backblaze to absorb the huge numbers of customers fleeing CrashPlan and revisit the price increase. Can you imagine the panicked conversations at Backblaze that morning? The company decided to hold off raising prices for at least six months to avoid looking predatory. Backblaze was ready to announce the price hike on 22 August 2017… and then canceled because earlier the same day, its main competitor pulled out of the market (see “ CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017). (It had to do with the amount of data being backed up increasing faster than the cost of storage was falling.)īackblaze’s Yev Pusin has now written a detailed blog post that explains more about those factors, along with the required software development and communications effort and how the price hike affected customer churn and signup rates. We’ve always been curious about the reasoning that goes into such business decisions, and Backblaze shared some of that with the announcement of the price increase. #1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumorsīehind the Scenes of the Backblaze Price HikeĮarly this year, online backup service Backblaze bumped the price of its monthly plan from $5 to $6, with annual and bi-annual plans rising commensurately (see “ Backblaze Increases Pricing for Unlimited Backup,” 12 February 2019).#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down. #1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1.#1663: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro, 12 more OS features coming in 2023, new Apple service features, Apollo shuts down.#1664: Real system requirements for OS 2023, beware Siri creating alarms instead of timers.
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