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I'm a long time (yearly plan) user with a similar experience. The crux of the issue is that Pinboard's centralized architecture is unsustainable in the long ru
by imiric 6y ago
I'm a long time (yearly plan) user with a similar experience.
The crux of the issue is that Pinboard's centralized architecture is unsustainable in the long run. It's essentially an on-demand archive.org service with the same ever-increasing storage requirements, which becomes a bigger problem as more users join.
It must be difficult for a one (or two) person team to manage, especially since they also chose to manage their own hardware. I assume this is to avoid cloud storage and hosting costs, and I respect the decision, but this can add a lot of overhead on top of just keeping the software performing optimally.
The sustainable model for this type of service is self-hosted. https://archivebox.io/ https://archivebox.io/ seems like a nice solution I've been meaning to try.
- idlewords 6y agoThe decision to run my own hardware is due to the extremely high cost of storing and moving ~80TB around on the cloud, as well as running a high-memory MySQL instance. I haven't priced it recently, but the last time I looked it would have raised my costs by an order of magnitude.
- imiric 6y agoI can understand that, but have you considered a pay-per-use / tiered business model? It's clear from this thread that there are users who have thousands of bookmarks, using dozens of GB of storage, and those who use it much less and whose storage costs are negligible. Having either group pay a flat rate doesn't make sense to me, and you end up losing revenue either way. A tiered model could allow you to offset the cloud storage costs, maybe migrate things into the cloud and ease some of the maintenance burden on yourself.
- juliusmusseau 6y ago80TB on AWS is $44K USD / year on their crappy (cheap rotational) "st1" volume.
- nikisweeting 6y agoOr $5k/yr on Backblaze B2 with their free ingress/egress setup https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html#calculator https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html#calc...
- ElliotH 6y agoDepends what you mean by sustainable. Pinboard has taken care of my bookmarks since 2011, it’s still here in 2021. Nothing I put up on my VPS in 2011 still exists.