<story><title>Backblaze S-1 IPO</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462056/000119312521301141/d62601ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cupofjoakim</author><text>A friend in the music industry told me about a very cool backblaze moment.&lt;p&gt;They were out touring with an artist in some remote country, I think it was Kazakhstan, when the artists macbook suffered hard drive failure. Everything was backed up on backblaze, but the internet connections they had available was simply too unreliable to get the backup down. They contacted backblaze and for a price that was high (but not insane for a company) backblaze actually flew a guy with a physical hard drive to their location.&lt;p&gt;Saved ~5 gigs from being canceled, and my friend has been a die hard backblaze evangelist ever since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw7</author><text>If you haven&amp;#x27;t heard the stevie wonder story check it out.  I don&amp;#x27;t get why artists don&amp;#x27;t have backups (well, I do, but...).&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Nelson_Mandela_70th_Birthday_Tribute#Stevie_Wonder_walks_out&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Nelson_Mandela_70th_Birthday_T...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Backblaze S-1 IPO</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462056/000119312521301141/d62601ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cupofjoakim</author><text>A friend in the music industry told me about a very cool backblaze moment.&lt;p&gt;They were out touring with an artist in some remote country, I think it was Kazakhstan, when the artists macbook suffered hard drive failure. Everything was backed up on backblaze, but the internet connections they had available was simply too unreliable to get the backup down. They contacted backblaze and for a price that was high (but not insane for a company) backblaze actually flew a guy with a physical hard drive to their location.&lt;p&gt;Saved ~5 gigs from being canceled, and my friend has been a die hard backblaze evangelist ever since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vort3</author><text>As someone who lives in Kazakhstan, I can confirm, backups are basically useless here because speeds are so bad it&amp;#x27;s faster to fly a plane than download files…</text></comment>