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Gleb Budman

Co-founder and CEO of Backblaze

How we know it's theirs

Backblaze's 2012 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 2 posts and 29 comments from u/glebbudman, dated 2012 to 2019, most often in r/IAmA, r/sysadmin and r/technology.

Best moment

A redditor posted in r/sysadmin

Backblaze takes on Amazon S3 with dirt-cheap data storage for developers

u/glebbudman replied

3 years ago we did an AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/rhrt4/we_are_the_team_that_runs_online_backup_service/?

That conversation was part of the motivation to open up our cloud storage to everyone. Thank you for you help and thoughts, and we've love to know how you might use Backblaze B2 cloud storage.

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “We are the team that runs online backup service Backblaze. We've got 25,000,000 GB of cloud storage and open sourced our storage server. AUA.”

Been using your service for about 2 years now (I think) and absolutely love it! That being said... What would you say is the biggest weakness of your service?

u/glebbudman replied

Glad you love it! I think it's a strength, but one of the things we get most often commented on as being a weakness is the inability to pick and choose files and folders for backup. When we started the…

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Glad you love it! I think it's a strength, but one of the things we get most often commented on as being a weakness is the inability to pick and choose files and folders for backup.

When we started the company, basically no one was backing up data, despite solutions existing for over a decade. (Some for multiple decades.)

Talking with people we heard everyone say the reason they weren't backing up was that it was too hard...and figuring out what to backup was the hardest part. Thus, we came up with the "enter your email/password and you're done" approach where we backup all data.

However, some users...typically those who've been accustomed to existing solutions...beg us to add the ability to pick files and folders. They see this as a huge weakness. We continue to not do this because it would make the product more complicated for the other 99% of people who don't want to manage their backups every day.

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “We're The Backblaze Cloud Team (Managing 750+ Petabytes of Cloud Storage) - Back 7 Years Later - Asks Us Anything!”

Any plans to add an SSD tier? Obviously the cost per GB is much higher but it's getting lower and lower all the time. Would save a bunch on electricity but I am sure that's not enough to justify the cost yet.

u/glebbudman replied

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When we started 12 yrs ago we thought "SSDs should be a viable replacement for HDDs in a couple years." Recently we were again saying the same thing again. SSDs are still 10x more expensive on a per-GB basis. They save some on electricity, but unfortunately they don't come even close to paying for themselves. We've thought about creating an SSD tier for performance, but the limits to latency is the Internet, not the HDD.

gleb @ backblaze