Backblaze B2 Offers Cheap Cloud Storage for Half Penny Per GB Per Month
Not much can be bought for less than a cent these days, but you can store a huge amount of files in the cloud for $ 0.005 a month with the new Backblaze B2 storage service. It will even give you 10GB for free.
Backblaze B2 is similar to Amazon S3 (starting at $ 0.022 / month) or Amazon Glacier ( penny per GB ). It’s online, pay-for-what storage – even petabytes of space – that you can use as a backup solution ( as is the case with Glacier ) or to host files online. It looks like B2 is designed with developers in mind as it has an API and you can upload or download data using the command line (CLI).
As with Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, you pay for both storage and retrieval (downloads). The download costs $ 0.05 per gigabyte, so this isn’t really a Dropbox replacement or frequent file access. But you can store 100GB of photos or videos there for as little as $ 0.50 a month, which is pretty cool.
The service comes with a web interface for uploading files to your baskets, as well as warnings when you reach your specified storage limit. If you need to download a large pile of files at once, you can get a flash drive with shipped files (128GB) for $ 99 or a USB hard drive (3TB) for $ 189.
Either way, if you sign up, you get 10GB of storage to try out B2 for free.
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