backblaze: behind the scenes

I use backblaze for my backup storage. While my ISP (from the Philippines) slows it down a bit, I do love the ability to have an online backup that is off site, in case of problems.

After signing up, I was very curious as to how they could scale this model without breaking the bank, and I initially thought they might be using Amazon S3. It turns out that they are not using Amazon S3, nor any of the other mainstream storage offerings. They recently gave a detailed view of their primary storage structure, the Backblaze Storage Pod. While it does not go into detail on their web app, which is the key ingredient to their structure, it does give great insight and instructions to their building block of a scalable storage solution.