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Really? It doesn't get much cheaper than $1/mo. Yes, I know that's only 2GB, but how many images do you need to share anonymously with the internet?

paxys 5y ago
iCloud has a 50GB plan for $1/mo. OneDrive does 100GB for $2/mo, GDrive for $1.67/mo.
- supperburg 5y ago
  Yeah but then you’re supporting Apple and google and also certainly being spied on and putting yourself at risk of being flagged as a pedophile.
  - hnaccy 5y ago
    imgz will flag you to NCMEC too ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676746 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676746
    - stavros 5y ago
      Yes! Definitely don't upload any child porn.
      - supperburg 5y ago
        Yes! Definitely don’t upload any pictures of your young daughter taking a bath or of your own body if you are a teenager. Those are evil and hurt people.
        stavros 5y ago
        That's not porn though, is it? It's just child. I do agree with you though about posting photos of your child/self.
        jrochkind1 5y ago
        it's a philosophical question that you might think is an interesting one to discuss with federal law enforcement, but I've heard not so much.
        corobo 5y ago
        If the picture of your young daughter taking a bath is in the NCMEC database you have much bigger issues than hosting images
    - dijit 5y ago
      yeah, every image hosting service will. The issue was never that iCloud was scanned, it was that your phone is scanning your photos and that the list was opaque- it's a whole other thing if it's your own device which is supposed to be _yours_ that is spying on you. Potentially for big brother.
- hunterb123 5y ago
  All of which disable sharing for a file if bandwidth usage is too high. That leads to the question. How much bandwidth does imgz stand up to? It says it's "included" so no charges, but quota is not clear. - edit - >No. I don't know. It's not a problem yet. If it becomes a problem, I'll make it your problem, but I think we're gonna be okay. Looks like there's no quota for now.
  - jenny91 5y ago
    The bandwidth limit for the aforementioned services is probably higher than when stavros will make it your problem?
    - hunterb123 5y ago
      You'd think so, but have you ever tried to share a file from one of these services to a popular forum or subreddit? They don't list their per file bandwidth quotas because they are incredibly low, suitable for cloud storage, not for file sharing, especially not mass sharing.
  - stavros 5y ago
    The quota is "whenever CloudFlare decides I've used too much of their caching", I think. Hetzner is pretty great about bandwidth, I think they'll let me use as much as will saturate the connection to the DC.
    - corobo 5y ago
      Might be worth looking at pulling with a Worker if that's ever an issue. They don't care if you do it that way :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 E: lol you were in that thread, you probably know about it
      - stavros 5y ago
        I was but I'd forgotten, thanks for reminding me! Also, Cloudflare now have a very nice image resizing product which I'd probably use if IMGZ didn't need to resize ten images per year. I'm not sure they're ready for my kind of volume yet.
hnaccy 5y ago
larger cloud providers are free/cheaper https://catbox.moe/ https://catbox.moe/ et al are free and no account needed B2 and similar with a little effort is half a cent per gig I don't know why you would use this unless you like OP's attitude and want to simply support him.
stavros 5y ago
Definitely the best part of IMGZ for me is the cli utility: https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/ https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/

paxys 5y ago

iCloud has a 50GB plan for $1/mo. OneDrive does 100GB for $2/mo, GDrive for $1.67/mo.

supperburg 5y ago
Yeah but then you’re supporting Apple and google and also certainly being spied on and putting yourself at risk of being flagged as a pedophile.
- hnaccy 5y ago
  imgz will flag you to NCMEC too ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676746 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676746
  - stavros 5y ago
    Yes! Definitely don't upload any child porn.
    - supperburg 5y ago
      Yes! Definitely don’t upload any pictures of your young daughter taking a bath or of your own body if you are a teenager. Those are evil and hurt people.
      - stavros 5y ago
        That's not porn though, is it? It's just child. I do agree with you though about posting photos of your child/self.
        jrochkind1 5y ago
        it's a philosophical question that you might think is an interesting one to discuss with federal law enforcement, but I've heard not so much.
      - corobo 5y ago
        If the picture of your young daughter taking a bath is in the NCMEC database you have much bigger issues than hosting images
  - dijit 5y ago
    yeah, every image hosting service will. The issue was never that iCloud was scanned, it was that your phone is scanning your photos and that the list was opaque- it's a whole other thing if it's your own device which is supposed to be _yours_ that is spying on you. Potentially for big brother.
hunterb123 5y ago
All of which disable sharing for a file if bandwidth usage is too high. That leads to the question. How much bandwidth does imgz stand up to? It says it's "included" so no charges, but quota is not clear. - edit - >No. I don't know. It's not a problem yet. If it becomes a problem, I'll make it your problem, but I think we're gonna be okay. Looks like there's no quota for now.
- jenny91 5y ago
  The bandwidth limit for the aforementioned services is probably higher than when stavros will make it your problem?
  - hunterb123 5y ago
    You'd think so, but have you ever tried to share a file from one of these services to a popular forum or subreddit? They don't list their per file bandwidth quotas because they are incredibly low, suitable for cloud storage, not for file sharing, especially not mass sharing.
- stavros 5y ago
  The quota is "whenever CloudFlare decides I've used too much of their caching", I think. Hetzner is pretty great about bandwidth, I think they'll let me use as much as will saturate the connection to the DC.
  - corobo 5y ago
    Might be worth looking at pulling with a Worker if that's ever an issue. They don't care if you do it that way :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 E: lol you were in that thread, you probably know about it
    - stavros 5y ago
      I was but I'd forgotten, thanks for reminding me! Also, Cloudflare now have a very nice image resizing product which I'd probably use if IMGZ didn't need to resize ten images per year. I'm not sure they're ready for my kind of volume yet.

hnaccy 5y ago

larger cloud providers are free/cheaper https://catbox.moe/ https://catbox.moe/ et al are free and no account needed B2 and similar with a little effort is half a cent per gig I don't know why you would use this unless you like OP's attitude and want to simply support him.

stavros 5y ago

Definitely the best part of IMGZ for me is the cli utility: https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/ https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/