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Storage, in numbers
Notes from running backups, migrations and archives for real teams: what things cost, why they break, and what we changed.
September 8, 2026
Durable is not backed up: the five ways cloud storage actually loses data
Eleven nines of durability protect against disks. They do nothing about the things that actually delete your files, all of which are people and scripts.
September 8, 2026
Why a mirror needs versioning, and a backup doesn't
An identical live copy replicates your mistakes within seconds. That is the point of it, and it is why the copy has to keep every version.
September 8, 2026
What 240 million objects taught us about cloud storage pricing
We priced a real archive of 241 million objects three ways. The average object size said one thing, the distribution another, and the bill follows the distribution.