It is for people using hetzner for stuff.

I run minio on hetzner and wouldn't send stuff across some other network to backblaze.

I was thinking of switching to BlackBlaze as I'm currently using Digital Ocean Spaces -- however I might look at Hetzner again -- not revolutionary but quite competitive.

b2 is not that good

We use it for multiple use cases and all of them require lots of retries and error handling

essentially they're build for backups use case, with lots of spinning rust, any kind of "working data" easily underperforms

backups work fine because not time sensitive and retries handle the problems

1€ / TB egress is extremely attractive, though. Most other "budget" providers charge at least 10 - 20$.

Backblaze egress is free up to 3x the average stored amount, which covers backup recovery at least.

And they participate in the Bandwidth Alliance, where they offer free egress to traffic that goes through Cloudflare.

cloudflare r2 has free egress

I know, but I prefer fair pricing over free in situations like this. There are plenty of stories going around of CF forcing users to upgrade to an enterprise plan due to their usage. When there is a price tag, at least I know that won't happen to me (not that my usage would be on CFs radar anyway, it's the principle of it).

Mentioned in this discussion https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/pricing/

If you self hosted minio on their SX nodes you could prob get close to half

… might be revolutionary for backblaze…

How much debt do they have on their balance sheet?