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IPS announces full support for Backblaze storage in 4.7

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If you run a media rich forum (or just want to scale your storage for the future), IPS is *officially* expanding its support to Backblaze in the near future.  IPS has always allowed Amazon S3 and has allowed clients to drop in S3 compatible storage in the past, but this is the first time they've publicly talked about their 

Backblaze can be a significantly cheaper alternative to Amazon S3 since it's part of the Cloudflare alliance.  As long as your egress is less than x3 of your storage, you pay no egress fees.  Amazon S3 is cheap on storage, but you get charged for bandwidth for egress, which can more than offset the storage costs.  

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