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If confirmed, the demand for $399 per year puts Photobucket solidly in the ransom price range. Renting a web server with ample space and bandwidth is much less
by HelloNurse 9y ago
If confirmed, the demand for $399 per year puts Photobucket solidly in the ransom price range. Renting a web server with ample space and bandwidth is much less expensive.
- syshum 9y agoI hope self hosting makes a come back... The internet is far far far too siloed today
- brogrammernot 9y agoThis is not an apples to apples comparison. You're expecting people to run their own server? Add in costs to maintain the server, learning how to upload files, any downtime or wrong setup costs are on the user. You can say $399 is ransom, but that's not unreasonable in my mind. It's a $399 business cost for these sellers on Amazon, EBay, Etsy. Those pictures have earned them more than $399 in the lifetime they've had them.
- throwaway2016a 9y agoOr better yet... uploading them to Amazon S3. There even exists GUI tools to do it with no technical knowledge.
- uhhhhhhh 9y ago$400 only if you choose to use their service. logging in to PB, downloading your images, uploading them elsewhere and updating your listings is completely possible and probably would take a few hours at best. You could hire someone to do it for less than $400 if you wanted to, except for the few sellers working at scale with thousands of listings If you're one of those sellers with thousands of listings, and you are using a free service, and ignored the terms of service notification given on the 26th, then it seems pretty reasonably to blame yourself and either pony up the money or find another service and pay for that.