The price gap between the two object storage systems come from the Bandwidth Alliance between Backblaze and Cloudflare, a group of providers that have agreed to not charge (or heavily discount) for data leaving inside the alliance of networks (“egress” charges). A big part of the costs of this operation is their bandwidth, which is amazingly affordable. As we started into the effort, other factors such as variety of API, quality of API, real-life workability, and customer service started to surface.Īfter looking at a wide variety of considerations, we decided on Backblaze's B2 service. Benefitsĭue to S3 and B2 being at least nearly equally* accessible, reliable, available, as well as many other providers, our primary reason for moving our backups now became pricing. This article describes how our team approached it, why, and what happened, specifically so we could share our experiences. After looking at the current offerings, we decided we were moving our backups from Amazon’s S3 to Backblaze’s B2 service. In November 2018, it became clear to us at Nodecraft that we could improve our costs if we re-examine our cloud backup strategy. It goes without saying that backup reliability is important for server owners.

In the course of server owners running their game servers, there are backups generated including the servers’ files, game backups and other files. is a multiplayer cloud platform, where gamers can rent and use our servers to build and share unique online multiplayer servers with their friends and/or the public. TL DR: Nodecraft moved 23TB of customer backup files from AWS S3 to Backblaze B2 in just 7 hours.

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