Gaming Platform Captures Massive Savings

James Ross, the CTO of Nodecraft, and his colleagues built an online, multiplayer gaming service that earned rave reviews. Thanks to cloud technology, they were able to scale to match their growing popularity seamlessly. But while they grew, so did their bill for cloud storage and egress fees—at a rate that threatened their operation.

Nodecraft relied on Amazon S3 to store their game and server files, and Cloudflare to transmit those files to customers around the world. Ross realized he could get the same performance as S3 with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, but at 1/5 the cost—and that he could erase his egress fees to Cloudflare thanks to Backblaze’s membership in the Bandwidth Alliance.

The team migrated to B2 Cloud Storage with zero service disruption. Their cloud storage bill shrunk to only a 1/5 of what it was before, and their bill to shift content to Cloudflare was completely eliminated. Overall, Nodecraft shaved 85% off of their monthly bill for storage and egress—savings they can now invest to grow their service to happy gamers around the world.