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Bingo: Now available in 50 and 25 gigabyte versions

By David Young 18 October 06

We’ve recently updated our Bingo on-demand storage service to include 50 and 25 gigabyte versions. We also offer a 100 gigabyte version. Each plan comes with a free bandwidth provision. The storage is available over HTTP and HTTPS using WebDAV so it is dead simple to use (unlike some of the other storage products out there that have proprietary APIs or require a client download). There is a public folder that allows you to serve up a static website, audio or videocast files. Based on the Sun X4500, Bingo is very fast.

Bingo can be combined with our on-demand compute product Container for high-traffic websites that need dedicated faster static file delivery capabilities. Since both services are on the same private network, there are no bandwidth services when using Bingo for things like backup.


  1. It appears the password is incorrect when trying to login with the ‘demo@bingodisk.com’ account to try it out. Can you fix this?

    — Rob    989 days ago    #

  2. @Rob: works for me. URL is http://demo.bingodisk.com. User name: demo@bingodisk.com. Password: bingo.

    — David Young    989 days ago    #

  3. For what it’s worth, using FireFox going to http://demo.bingodisk.com, I receive a “403 Forbidden – You don’t have permission to access / on this server.” error message.

    — Thomas    989 days ago    #

  4. My apologies

    Correction: URL should be:

    http://demo.bingodisk.com/bingo

    The trailing /bingo is for compatibility with Windows XP.

    — David Young    989 days ago    #

  5. David,

    FWIW, the trailling /bingo was required on Mac OS X (10.4.8) too.

    — Jim    989 days ago    #

  6. @Jim, you’re right, its required for Mac OS X too. Required for any OS with a recent WebDAV client. The reason we have the trailing /bingo, though, is for Windows XP compatibility.

    — David Young    989 days ago    #

  7. If only you had a European datacenter… 250k/s just doesn’t cut it.

    — vivified    989 days ago    #

  8. Does the demo account have a public folder as well?

    — Thomas    989 days ago    #

  9. @Thomas: Yes. We sweep demo fairly often, too.

    — David Young    988 days ago    #

  10. So what kind of product are you going to build on top of the Blackbox?

    Oh wait, “If only you had a European data center”....

    — slumos    988 days ago    #

  11. As a point of true confusion, if I have a 25GB storage setup, then I must take no less than ten months to fill it because I can only use 2.5GB/month of bandwidth? This sort of makes it unlikely that the service could be used for a full+incremental backup setup.

    — Neil    988 days ago    #

  12. @Neil: bandwidth isn’t free. Yeah, I know some companies promise you 1tb of bandwidth for free, but that is really meaningless because they know people won’t use the products underneath. Amazon S3 charges 20 cents per gigabyte with no free bandwidth.

    For the incremental backup use case you propose, let’s assume you use 20gb of a 25gb Bingo disk. That means the first month you will owe for 17.5gb of bandwidth or $3.50. Now if your data continues to churn at 100% (20gb) each month, the price will continue to be $3.50 in bandwidth. However, if it changes anywhere below 12% (for this example), you’re fine. We did the pricing this way to provide the least expensive service possible.

    — David Young    987 days ago    #

  13. Hey, when I go to the signup page it still lists the 50GB plan as having 10GB bandwidth, even though everywhere else says 5GB bandwidth

    — andy    984 days ago    #

  14. I’m confused about the bandwidth issue. In your post it says:

    Each plan comes with a free bandwidth provision.

    But then on the plan pages it lists bandwidth limits. What gives?

    Does free refer to the fact that there are bandwidth provisions, period, that come with the account. Or does it mean that bandwidth is free? I suspect the former, but the wording isn’t clear!

    — Dave Chiu    980 days ago    #

  15. @Dave

    A free bandwidth provision means that it’s not entirely a utility price. There is some bandwidth that is included with each plan at no additional cost. For example, 10 gigabytes of bandwidth is included in the 100GB of space plan, and if you do 200GB of transfer from the account then you’d be billed $38 for the other 190GB. How the bandwidth is done is no different and at the same cost as S3.

    — Jason Hoffman    980 days ago    #

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