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0 pointsKennyBlanken4y ago0 comments

It makes perfect sense because just like every other cloud company, they hook you pre-IPO. Post IPO or buyout, with lots of customers dependent upon them, they can raise their prices to a bit above market price because their customers will resist moving.

Think about it: if you have a backups stored with them via their proprietary backup client, you have to stick with them or lose all your backup revisions; there's no way to move revision history.

That's why they charged below their own rates, they knew people would be trapped.

Backblaze backup plan pricing is about to skyrocket.

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Hamuko4y ago

I think Backblaze only stores 30 days of revisions anyways, so to migrate you only have to maintain two backup service subscriptions for a month. And you might want to do that anyways since if you have a lot of data, it might be weeks before you get all of your backups on the second service.

pickle-wizard4y ago

They now have options to store 1 year or indefinitely for an extra charge.

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