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Hm. My bet would be that you can now count the number of years until imgur links go dead on one hand. This prompted me to check whether there were any backup e
by MauranKilom 5y ago
Hm. My bet would be that you can now count the number of years until imgur links go dead on one hand.
This prompted me to check whether there were any backup efforts already, and how much data that would involve. Indeed, archiveteam has some good info: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur
> Imgur serves a massive amount of traffic. In 2012 alone, 42 petabytes of data were transferred. Fortunately, the amount of images uploaded is much less, albeit still a lot. In 2012, around 300,000,000 images were uploaded; assuming an average size of 120KB, that's 36TB in one year. As of 2014, there were 650 million images with 1.5 million being added each day according to one source. An analysis in 2015 based on extrapolation from a sample of random image IDs estimated about 2 billion images with a total raw full-resolution image size of 376 TiB.
Also makes me think about whether/how much I currently link to imgur in various places on the internet, and whether there's anything that I should prepare to replace. Do people have suggestions how to best approach this?
- catillac 5y agoI would change any links you have pointing to Imgur. But as for storing the contents, wasn’t it just a site for memes? I can’t recall a single time over many years seeing anything worth preserving that wasn’t essentially throwaway content.
- MauranKilom 5y agoWell, one (semi-)frequent use case for me would be creating some graphic (e.g. a chart or a UI suggestion) that I would share in some community (e.g. forum). Unlikely anyone looks at them again a decade later, but those embeds will still rot away...
- wodenokoto 5y agoTons of amazing one-off blog posts told with images as the focus has been posted through Imgur. Things like “how I renovated my house” or “how the circuitry of this gadget works” told through pictures with supporting texts lives solely on Imgur.
- coldpie 5y agoThat is an incredibly narrow view of what imgur is used for. Over on the Something Awful forums there is a _ton_ of amazing content with all of the images hosted on Imgur. Stuff like woodworking and other craft blogs, video game playthroughs, collection photographs, musical instruments... I'm sure many other online communities use it for the same purpose. When imgur dies (this announcement is a very loud death knell) it's going to be a huge, huge loss.
- Aeolun 5y agoHuh, all of Imgur costs only +/- $2000/month to store on Backblaze. That’s not that bad.
- paxys 5y agoStorage is cheap. Bandwidth is usually the killer.
- corobo 5y agoChuck it behind Cloudflare and take advantage of the Bandwidth Alliance https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ If you become popular replace the orange cloud with a Worker. Different TOS and the CEO said it's cool to use workers in this way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660
- mark-wagner 5y agoBased on IPs and whois, imgur uses fastly.
- netr0ute 5y agoIf you're a Tier 1, then bandwidth is free by definition.
- gremloni 5y agoWow if you’re running your own servers that’s less than $5000
- killingtime74 5y agoIf you don’t mind how did you arrive at this figure? It’s $5000 per month right
- gremloni 5y ago80 TB racks run for around $1500 each. So just a one time payment of $5000. Not every month.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoIt's possible to create a 400 TiB storage server for $5000?
- ornornor 5y agoHi like imgbb.com. A lot less flashy too.