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Any service cheaper than Backblaze? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do you know any service cheaper than Backblaze?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Storj is blockchain stuff with the storage and bandwidth provided by individual node operators. They've kinda tried to bury the whole blockchain stuff and generally keep it removed from their main signup/pricing/usage flow; customers pay in USD and never have to see any of it. But it's still there in the background and it's still the main reward system for node operators.

There's some clickwrapped T&Cs for operators that set some minimum requirements, they've made sure one node leaving doesn't cause data loss, but I'd still be very wary of using them for anything irreplaceable. It only takes one crypto crash or the like for the whole thing to die out, and while they might end up suing some guys running an old NAS out of their garage, that's not gonna get your data back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I have the same concern about them. Seems to me that one wants data in a professional and planned data center and based on contractual relationships.