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50% OFF Object Storage - $3 Per TB
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I have been watching this thread just to find out how 50% of $5 is $3 🤔
My payment was successfully processed on February 20, but my account appears to have been deleted or restricted without any prior email notification. I cannot log in (receiving "incorrect credentials" errors), reset my password (no recovery emails received), or access configured S3 resources. The service rejection error states:
"failed get objs: [...] InvalidAccessKeyId: The Access Key Id you provided does not exist [...] status code: 403, request id: 182694D7AB681879"
Why was my account terminated despite active payment, and why was there no communication about this action?
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If you send us an email, we will investigate the issue. However, if you are unable to log in to our control panel, your account may have been suspended.
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i feel like this now
I have submitted the support ticket. Please let me know if any additional materials or information are required.
why does your profile pic tells me the other half is upto no good!
I think it's just your imagination. It's simply a plain picture - how lovely is the adorable Misaka Mikoto?
Why would one choose this over Backblaze?
Inspired by this:
The price is lower, traffic is free. Backblaze also offers free traffic through Cloudflare, but there are some caveats. To stay within Cloudflare’s ToS you can serve HTML, CSS and JS, but you can’t, for example, download a 1GB archive on the free plan (correct me if I’m wrong).
That said, keep in mind that Backblaze is a big, well known company, while OP isn’t. So, it’s best not to store valuable data with them alone, though, really, you should never keep important data in just one place anyway
I want to try@ order placed!
What's interesting is they removed the unlimited bandwidth check box and now doesn't even state the bandwidth on the order page. Major red flags here.
I personally recommend Telnyx S3 Storage if you're in the USA. It is $0.006 per GiB just like Backblaze but with unlimited traffic, no Cloudflare need. I have 165TB their Central and East USA endpoints. I’m pulling 5-8Gbit downloads from my buckets which is pretty on par or faster than my experience with Backblaze B2. Telnyx is pretty cool as you can embed your s3 bucket into their AI chat and have it go through the files.
I thought this SystemFreaks deal might shave a few bucks off what I am paying, but wow, what a dumpster fire of a thread.
I keep popping back daily, half-expecting a response to anything we’ve asked, or at least someone to explain how $3 is magically '50% of $5' (still waiting on that math lesson).
Seriously, though—why leave potential customers hanging for days? And when you do reply, why dodge every actual question? We finally got a response on server locations which was left out on the OP and order form.
Test file? You promised one, but crickets—until another user dropped it and we clocked a blazing 800KB/s to 2MB/s.
Where’s the API documentation? A simple matrix of AWS S3-supported commands would be nice before someone. Do we just order with no information and hope that we can get it to work with our environment?
Oh, and nice stealth edit removing 'unlimited bandwidth' from the order page....I know I just said that but I felt it needed to be asked again because if someone was to order now you could easily say bandwidth wasn't unlimited.
And finally yeah, echoing everyone else: fire whoever cursed us with that slider.
This made my day!
Bandwidth remains unlimited, and is stated on ther order form . We appreciate your input and will take it seriously to make improvements.
Thanks for adding it back. It wasn't there when I posted.
Can we get some test file URLs so we can test speeds for each location?
I've pushed several petabytes a month through Cloudflare without problems. The only issue is Backblaze's rate limits.
I pushed 50-100TB per month with a free cloudlfare account and worker when I used Backblaze b2. As you said only limits you can hit are the backblaze API rate limits.
For me it's looks like very good/cheap storage solution.
Great offer/product. Thank you!
Have you ever hit any similar API rate limits with Telnyx? Also, any fair use policy on egress? I considered using them but they required identity verification right after I created an account so that's been putting me off.
Anyone got experience with intercolo? Their reserved pricing seems quite cheap but I couldn't find it in their panel only payg was there......
I have not hit any limits with them. Also no fair use policy, it is fully unlimited. I am pushing 354TB egress this month so far and average about 200TB/month the past 10 months.
Here are the limits https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/cloud-storage/limits. I have exceeded them on occasion but have never been limited. They will also work with you depending on what you need.
Yeah the identity verification is annoying but worth it once it's done.
That is cheap but they do have a limit on bandwidth if you read the * part further down.
"With our S3-compatible storage service, you not only get storage space but also an equivalent quota of outgoing traffic – at no additional cost. This means, for example, if you book 1 Terabyte (TB) of storage space, you also get 1 TB of outgoing traffic each month for free." "Additional traffic is charged at a fair price of only €3.99 per Terabyte"
If you only download what you upload then yeah it seems like a great offer especially if you prepay but only Germany for the storage is a bit lame.
That is a no for me. I only host 30TB but push 200TB a month so I would have to pay for additional bandwidth beyond the 30TB.
How did you mount the bucket? Do you have caching enabled if you did it via s3fs or clone then it probably is caching skewing the results. Still thats a good speed if 1Gbps is your max port speed but I would expect faster for it to be comparable to other s3 providers.
What speed do you get when downloading files directly? I tried one of the test files a user posted here to multiple servers in EU and USA and I could barely get 2MB/s.
@systemfreaks
We’re still hanging on for some answers to questions folks have been asking since your offer went up on February 19. You mentioned on February 20 you’d get back to us "shortly" with locations, test links, and responses, but there’s still a bunch of stuff we’re in the dark about. Could you please take a swing at these?
Here’s what we’re still waiting on:
Can your provide hardware and network specs for each location?
Can you elaborate on redundancy—how are you keeping our data safe? What encryption options are available? How is the data replicated or distributed across your setup?
How do we pick a specific location (Germany, Greece, UK, or Amsterdam) when ordering? Or can we only do that after ordering?
Where’s the link to test and download a file that was promised? Can we get test file URLs for all four locations—not just Germany—so we can check speeds ourselves?
If we sign up now with monthly billing, can we switch to hourly later and keep the LETS3 discount? You responded regarding changing sizes and keeping the discount but does that only apply to the prepaid plan?
Can you provide the API documentation? A list of supported AWS S3 commands would really help us figure out if this fits our workflows.
Can you clear up the pricing in the original post? $3/TB isn’t 50% off $5/TB—shouldn’t it be $2.50/TB?
Can you add manual GB or TB input to the site instead of the slider?
We get that fraud issues slowed you down, and we appreciate the transparency there. But it’s been a few days, and these gaps are making it tough to pull the trigger.
They're starting small, and you're a big buyer. Maybe you're just not their target market yet.
A small buyer like me might be more suited. Using their storage for WordPress backups, I haven't exceeded a TB, though.
I mean it's 30TB considered a big buyer? That's what $90 a month? Sure I have a few larger buckets but I also have a few 3TB buckets that only need 3-5TB egress a month.
Regardless the lack of answering system questions and providing test links just doesn't look well.
@navyfighter
"Can your provide hardware and network specs for each location?"
8 Disks Per Node, Unlimited bandwidth is at 1 GBPS, number of Nodes available depending on the location and usage, minimum 12 nodes per location available for this offer
Can you elaborate on redundancy—how are you keeping our data safe? What encryption options are available? How is the data replicated or distributed across your setup?
All buckets are replicated and there is HA proxy in place to assure redundancy, you will be able to choose Encryption within the bucket manage page soon,
How do we pick a specific location (Germany, Greece, UK, or Amsterdam) when ordering? Or can we only do that after ordering?
You can do After ordering and Soon it will be available on the order form, i believe you need server located in the US which are not part of this offer, but feel free to contact us for more details, the price is $5/TB
If we sign up now with monthly billing, can we switch to hourly later and keep the LETS3 discount? You responded regarding changing sizes and keeping the discount but does that only apply to the prepaid plan?
No, Hourly will require you to order a new bucket
Can you provide the API documentation? A list of supported AWS S3 commands would really help us figure out if this fits our workflows.
Work In Progress
Can you clear up the pricing in the original post? $3/TB isn’t 50% off $5/TB—shouldn’t it be $2.50/TB?
Thats Clearly a Typo on the Tittle , the actual discount, i believe this is clear and i hope moderators can edit it or we will start a new post, in any case is not Miss-leading since the price is CLEARLY stated
Can you add manual GB or TB input to the site instead of the slider?
Work In Progress
We get that fraud issues slowed you down, and we appreciate the transparency there. But it’s been a few days, and these gaps are making it tough to pull the trigger.
You claimed many times that hings "aren't looking well" i can assure you that we are as transparent as possible and there is nothing "Fishy" on this offer.
Awesome thanks for replying to all the questions. I do mainly need USA buckets but I was entertaining the idea of an EU buckets for a different business which is why I stuck around here. Unfortunately I will move on as bandwidth capped at 1Gbps is far below the competition and will not work for my businesses.
I will send you a message regarding USA location at the $5TB, but I would need more than 1Gbps.
Anyways thanks for responding the questions and wish you guys the best with your business.