Case Study: Nodecraft achieves almost 85% storage and egress cost savings with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

How Nodecraft moved 23TB from S3 to Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare and saved 85%

Nodecraft, a game-server hosting company led by CTO James Ross, expanded its NodePanel 2 platform to support many new games and added a server save-state system so players could swap games without losing progress. That growth created large, frequent backups and costly egress from Amazon S3, so Nodecraft evaluated Backblaze and its Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as a lower-cost alternative.

Nodecraft migrated more than 23 TB of customer backups from Amazon S3 to Backblaze B2 in about seven hours using scripts and APIs, and—because Backblaze is part of the Bandwidth Alliance—data downloads to Cloudflare incur no egress fees. By switching to Backblaze B2, Nodecraft cut its monthly storage and egress costs by almost 85%, enabling continued platform growth while preserving its fixed-price offering.

Nodecraft

James Ross

Co-Founder, CTO