Just for fun, here's my report of Nirvanix in 2008. I feel no problems sharing it since both NowPublic and Nirvanix is long gone. Let's just say there were reas

Just for fun, here's my report of Nirvanix in 2008. I feel no problems sharing it since both NowPublic and Nirvanix is long gone. Let's just say there were reasons they went under: 1) Sideloading. I was unable to benchmark or even to get this to work. Images requested to be loaded from media-src.nowpublic.com to node4 @ Nirvanix never showed up. I showed my code to [nirvanixcontact] who said that the code looked OK but someone did a load testing on node4 without informing Nirvanix and that steps are made so that such a situation won't occur again. He told me that the requests are not lsot but they still have not landed. Again, my code can be at fault and I would be happy to run a sideload example code. 2) Upload speeds. I have uploaded from d2 to Nirvanix 100 images each between 180-8584 kbytes totalling almost exactly 100 MB (101 844 931 bytes). The upload was a single HTTP request. The uploads took 18-19 minutes (I repeated the experiment). To give us a comparison I changed the URL in the script to a one line PHP script on another server (at hostignition.com) which just echo'd the number of uploaded files. This took 16.25 seconds and echo'd 100 so seemingly the files landed. 2a) I tried to get another node via the LoginProxy method which we would need for uploads anyways. While LoginProxy itself did work, GetStorageNodeExtended https://services.nirvanix.com/ws/IMFS/GetStorageNodeExtended.ashx?sessionToken=e7b00d25-fc35-431c-9437-9a4302767f46&sizeBytes=102309888&consumerIP=89.133.186.28&destFolderPath=upload/test https://services.nirvanix.com/ws/IMFS/GetStorageNodeExtended... always fails with ResponseCode 80006, ErrorMessage: Session not found for ip = 67.15.102.70, token = e7b00d25-fc35-431c-9437-9a4302767f46. Seemingly, does not pick up the consumerIP. 3) The image conversion itself is blazing fast though. These images took a total of 101.58 seconds to convert and this includes 300 HTTP requests (200 sent to d2 from Nirvanix, 100 to Nirvanix).