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Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business
The better goal? Keep your head down, make a great product, and build a successful business. Silicon Valley prays at the altar of the billion-dollar
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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Looking at cloud storage providers? B2 is 3x-30x cheaper than all of the other cloud storage providers including, Amazon S3, Azure, and Google.
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Raising Prices Is Hard
Everyone is faced with raising prices at some point. It's hard not to upset your customers let alone get them to rave about it. Here's how we did it.
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How to Get Your First 1,000 Customers
There are a variety of methods to attract your first 1,000 customers, but launching with the press is my favorite. I’ll explain why and how to do it.
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Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
B2 Cloud Storage has now partnered with Packet and ServerCentral to announce compute options. Here’s everything this means for you as a customer.
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Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives
Cloud storage continues to grow everyday. Backblaze recently passed 400 Petabytes of data stored in the cloud.
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Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website.
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Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond
You now have the ability to keep updated, changed, and even deleted files in your backups forever by extending version history.
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Backblaze B2 Drops Download Pricing by 60%
Effective immediately B2 download pricing is only $.02/GB. B2 cloud storage pricing is now 1/4th the price of Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or Azure.
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Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website.
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Out of Stock: How to Survive the LTO-8 Tape Shortage
If you’re currently using LTO for backup or archive, you have a few options for weathering the LTO-8 shortage. Let's take a look at the options.
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How Backblaze Got Started (2017)
You may have a great idea for a business, but ideas are cheap. Will your solution connect with customers? Here's the story of how we started Backblaze.