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Super Simple Storage Service
- charcircuit 5y agoI'm guessing this is a competitor to S3 Glacier Deep Archive since you aren't meant to read from it. They don't seem to provide information on how you get your data out. Maybe they will mail your drives with your data?
- fatcat32594 5y agoNah, that's why they're so cheap even compared to the competition. There is no read option. There's effectively no cost because there's no retrieval infrastructure! (In case you completely missed it, this site is satire, similar to /dev/null-as-a-service, etc)
- Cortana77 5y ago
- smackeyacky 5y agoMaybe someone should to an Ask HN: what happens when you request your S3 glacier data. I use it, but frankly it seems more like a protection racket given the costs of getting anything out of there.
- geraldwhen 5y agoTest your backups. Read time for me has been measured in minutes or sub hour, but the data isn’t huge.
- smackeyacky 5y agoI keep those glacier'd files on tape as well.
- huqedato 5y agoIt's a scam, obviously. Just look a the site, it's from late 90', no certificate.
- theginger 5y agoI think it is more of a joke. You can use /dev/null for unlimited free write only storage
- killingtime74 5y agoFor other readers this seems to be a joke.
- TobyTheDog123 5y agoI was going to comment "Why would a joke have a PayPal link to subscribe?" ...and then I clicked on the PayPal link :)
- themanmaran 5y agoThe link itself is great too: /s4/is/a/joke/stop/sending/us/money/readthefineprint.aspx
- bobsmooth 5y agoThank you. I did find it odd they compared their service to floppy disks and abacuses.
- jrs235 5y agoIt absolutely is a joke for readers. It's write-only technology! ;)
- dj_mc_merlin 5y agoIf you're looking for a bridge though, boy do I have an offer for you.
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- kgeist 5y agoTheir API has response messages (!). So much for a write-only service. Not quite as secure as advertised. I'm disappointed.
- dylan604 5y agoDo the response messages have anything to do with the ability to read the data? It seems normal for an API to report back common data like status message, number of bytes written, etc. It doesn't mean anything about reading the data itself
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- nathants 5y agolol wut? i like the name. my s4: https://github.com/nathants/s4 https://github.com/nathants/s4
- macksd 5y agoHa! There was also Apache S4 - a distributed stream processing framework from Yahoo! But it was retired before leaving the incubator a very long time ago.
- TobyTheDog123 5y agoA really nice touch is the case study they use, which shows a nonexistent MothersInLawPhotos . com (http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/MotherInLawPhotos.png http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/MotherInLawPhotos.p...) with all the images broken
- christoph 5y agoIf you look closely, you’ll see it’s not actually a page at all, but a screenshot of a page… with all the images broken. Top marks for the jokes within jokes and whoever put this all together. It’s definitely given me a really good chuckle tonight!
- unkulunkulu 5y agoLets see who’ll have the last laugh! (Full disclosure: an early backer of S4)
- Bellamy 5y agoSo this is not a joke?
- unkulunkulu 5y agoCan’t you back a joke? ;)
- Bellamy 5y agoGot me. :)
- grensley 5y agoIf you click buy now, you get a "this resource can't be read" error.
- felipebueno 5y ago
- bfung 5y agohttps://devnull-as-a-service.com/ https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
- fxtentacle 5y ago"One Less to Go" on the code page.
- christophilus 5y ago> If you reached this page by clicking a link, try unclicking the link.
- wolfgang000 5y agoTHIS IS GOLD!, I love it, I event click the paypal link to see if you have some old school fake paypal payment gateway. By the way the upload example form is broken, making it actually work would be awesome
- jamesy0ung 5y agoThis is pretty sketchy. No HTTPS and a fake example website called MothersInLawPhotos
- teach 5y agoWhoosh.
- suprfsat 5y agoWhile it's not HTTPS it does at least appear to be monetized.
- quickthrower2 5y agoBlazingly fast: No SSL handshakes!
- charcircuit 5y agoI hope not. You should be using TLS by now.
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- tersers 5y agoIt had me up until the SOAP example!
- throwawayHN378 5y agoLol same
- jpgvm 5y agoSomething about this being HTTP only makes it even better.
- azornathogron 5y agoI believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison. They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the internet [1] told me "I’ve seen numbers saying the lifespan of floppy disks is three to five years. But I’ve also seen numbers that claim they can last ten to twenty years or even indefinitely." If you assume floppy disks have an expected lifetime of 5 years, you can amortise the cost across that time, bringing the cost per TiB-month down to a nice reasonable $3,520. [1] https://blog.storagecraft.com/data-storage-lifespan/ https://blog.storagecraft.com/data-storage-lifespan/
- shoo 5y agoi believe there is an opportunity in the market for an advanced data storage technology to support writing huge volumes of information to a single 3.5" floppy, provided the legacy constraint of offering a read operation can be dispensed with.
- djbusby 5y agoEasy! Once you've written to the end just seek back to sector zero and continue writing. It's a like data-layer-cake.
- unkulunkulu 5y agoSo do they actually provide the newest hottest proof-of-writing even? Otherwise they’re just plain scam!
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- charcircuit 5y agoTheir calculations for S3 is wrong too. If you use glacial deep archive storing a terabyte costs $0.99 per month.
- XCSme 5y agoHover over the servers image and you can see their underlying file system.
- roywiggins 5y agoFinally WOM-as-a-service. http://www.rfcafe.com/miscellany/cool-products/images/signetics-25120-flly-encoded-9046xn-ra-write-only-memory-1.jpg http://www.rfcafe.com/miscellany/cool-products/images/signet...
- Forgeties79 5y agoThis is right up there with “gifs with sound” for me.
- keketi 5y agoThe API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.
- forgot_old_user 5y agooh wow really?
- behrlich 5y ago> S4's state-of-the-art write-only interface removes the headaches commonly associated with reading data. Durability is one of the headaches you can ignore with a write only interface.
- Groxx 5y agoIt doesn't even use a blockchain, how can we trust it?
- gemakelijk 5y agoBlockchain would fit perfectly, since it is a write only technology. And you do get nice features at no cost like smart contract, NFTs...
- mbreese 5y agoUmm. The blockchain is WORM technology (kinda). You write once, but it can be ready by anyone. This is a write-only resource… Now, you could in theory store SHA hashes on a block chain to confirm that the files were written.
- throwawayHN378 5y agoYou didn’t download the WSDL
- anakaine 5y agoHow do you figure? Looks pretty legit. Their storage imagery is a picture of multiple save icons... I mean, what else could they do to show how well they can store data?
- gotaquestion 5y agoJokes aside, I wiki'd this and there are a few interesting aspects of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(engineering) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(engineering...
- rkk3 5y agoLots of opportunities for a write only storage service > Key Scenarios: Customer complaint database Covert government document storage SETI@home output recorder Personal diary entries Unpublished manuscripts > Case Studies MotherInLawPhotos.com
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI tried to access this but I got a 418 error. I don’t even own a teapot.
- shoo 5y agoplease attach a bearer token with a signed attestation that you don't own a teapot, and re-submit your request
- julienlafond 5y agoFun to see that is was released at least 13 years ago, and the joke still works
- xapata 5y agoIf I recall, this was announced at a Meetup event. Halfway through, amidst the giggles, there was an awkward moment when the hosts realized some of the audience thought it was a real service.
- wesnerm2 5y agoFact check: The cost of S3 standard storage per TB is approximately $23 not $153. S3 standard storage, the most expensive kind, is $.021-.023 per GB. S4 costs about the same as S3 Deep Archive storage. Update: The article appears to be a joke. That aside, there are no cost savings against S3 Deep Archive; additionally S3 Deep Archive supports restores unlike the write-only S4.
- Cupprum 5y ago> S3 Deep Archive supports restores unlike the write-only S4 I bet that a Super service like this may also support restores, but because of security reasons, they would only be internally and not be visible to the end user.
- spiffytech 5y agoThe site's domain was registered in 2009, and I guess it hasn't been updated since then. Their 1TB S3 price is in line with S3's 2008 price of $0.15/GB, and many (all?) of S3's advanced pricing tiers wouldn't have debuted yet.
- rmbyrro 5y agoAppears to be a joke? LOL
- stewbrew 5y agoMy seven year old would say: O...M...G.
- ohyoutravel 5y agoI loved the error message: The resource cannot be read The resource you are trying to access cannot be read, due to the following reason: No read operation available.
- don-code 5y agoI was convinced that I was looking at a legitimate error message from IIS until I read it.
- karmasimida 5y agoSuper Simple (but not reliable) Storage Service There is a reason why storage is hard and why I only trust big techs to do it
- cjsawyer 5y agoWhy comment if you don’t even open the link?
- ignoramous 5y agoHeh. Reminds me of: It's hard to remember now, but there was a period of time not long ago when "the cloud" hadn't yet become an overused catchphrase. In those heady days of yore, people used to store things themselves – usually only on one device, and uphill both ways. These were hardscrabble people, living off of whatever meager storage they could scrounge together. They’d zip things, put them on zip drives, and hope for the best. Then one day almost everyone looked up towards the metaphorical sky and made a lot of compromises. https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/ https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
- rubyist5eva 5y agoJust upload everything to /dev/null on your server, unlimited write only storage. Save millions with this one neat trick, AWS salesmen hate it.
- alberth 5y agoSQL on Rails https://youtu.be/0_PK1eDQyVg https://youtu.be/0_PK1eDQyVg Always cracks me up, never gets old.
- quickthrower2 5y ago/dev/null as a service? Webscale!
- Beltalowda 5y ago/dev/null may be unavailable, for example in lightweight chroot/containers without /dev. It requires extra effort and administration from our devops team. Furthermore, it's a hard-coded path and this is a well-known code smell. It's better to outsource it to a dedicated team with /dev/null expertise rather than re-inventing the wheel in-house.
- charcircuit 5y agoIs a hardcoded domain even better?
- dylan604 5y agoIf you don't have access to /dev/null, then of course your security policy will give access to the internet. so, yes
- quickthrower2 5y agoTo save on the ingress charges I use 0.0.0.0
- belfalas 5y ago> Imagine the convenience of enabling your customers to open help tickets, provide feedback, add feature requests directly to your shared, read-proof store. Reliably deployed in production for many years at all Fortune 500s!
- pbohun 5y agoI've been so traumatized by WSDL it brings up bad memories even in jokes.
- rmbyrro 5y agoI would gladly pay for this, just for the dose of endorphin it delivered tonight
- cavisne 5y agoBuilt on mangodb? https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb
- dolomites 5y ago
- layer8 5y agoThis doesn’t seem to be compatible with GDPR’s Right of Access.
- vonwoodson 5y agoI genuinely believe I could actually use this service.
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- c3534l 5y agoThere might actually be a market for the web/cloud equivanent of /dev/null. So long as the API actually works, it would be nice to prototype against.
- ibdf 5y ago"Consuming S4 is a snap with advanced integration options. Upload directly from our website, send an email, tweet your content, or simply yell in an empty room." Lol... yell in an empty room.
- pingsl 5y agoConfused for a second till I saw "Write-Only storage". Obviously, they should include "Trash bin" in the pricing comparison table.
- LordDragonfang 5y agoHover over the image under the "S4:" header :)
- Seattle3503 5y agoI know this is a joke, but I have to wonder if this service could satisfy some compliance check box somewhere.
- vdfs 5y agoNo HTTPS is a big one
- notkurt 5y agoIt's even funnier when you realize it's hosted on an AWS S3 Bucket ~(^-^)~
- chaboud 5y agoTo stay with the "write-only" nature of this, they need to publish a GitHub for their perl sample code... What a delightful bit of whimsy.
- exikyut 5y ago1. "S4's state-of-the-art write-only interface removes the headaches commonly associated with reading data." 2. Click the buy buttons and then read carefully. Super Simple Storage Service, huh. Opinion: This was posted ~10 days late.
- cpfohl 5y agoEvaluating this for a client, I’m unclear on how this works with PHI under HIPAA, do I still need a BAA? This comment started as a joke and now I’m genuinely thinking about it; also from the disk usage claims which make it clear they’re not storing the data, would a service like require a BAA? It’d have to be encrypted at rest, so assuming that was true, and assuming that the data actually got stored (presumably as cold storage) I’m thinking it’d still require BAAs…
- disillusioned 5y agoIt's kind of Schrodinger's PHI. By the time you check to see if it exists, it definitely both does and does not but not provably so either way so... there, then.
- mbrodersen 5y agoThis reminds me of the intelligence services certified for top secret information version of a FIFO queue: the FINO queue. N of course stands for …
- crazypython 5y agoReminds of C14, which stores data in a nuclear fallout shelter, and takes a few minutes to retrieve. https://www.scaleway.com/en/c14-cold-storage/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/c14-cold-storage/
- Msw242 5y agoThis seems like a great service for the storages backend of an applicant tracking system! Given that 98% of resumes don't need to be read, this seems like a sane default.
- sagivo 5y agoI'm about to start S5 - update only DB. Even less headache to manage and pricing is as low as $1/PB
- mnemotronic 5y agoWanna help me start S6? A Delete-Only mass-storage system.
- jeffp17 5y agoThe internet needs more of this. Bring back bonsai kittens!
- jeffp17 5y agoThat is, 90s style hoax websites
- graderjs 5y agoLol. This is hilarious. I haven't laughed this much for ages, this had me laughing like the whole time I was reading it. Abacii and the scale transition in the graph y axis... Hahaha Tho seriously the lack of a an IaC option means that's a hard no from me. If I can't self-host this on an on-promise open source deployment, they're just making money of people too lazy to set this up themselves with rsync and bash scripts.
- mnemotronic 5y agoWait. Wasn't April 1st a week or so ago?
- cbg0 5y agoYou're allowed to have a chuckle any day of the year.
- scotty79 5y agoGreat for most backups.
- jjav 5y agoAnother example of an overpriced cloud service when a faster and cheaper solution is right in your CLI in the form of /dev/null which provides an equivalent service without the network latency and the bills!
- vasco 5y agoYou sound like the Dropbox guy. Sure for someone with experience like you it may be simple to set this up and maybe even faster, but some of us want to focus on our core product and not worry about this sort of thing. Knowing there's a provider I can call when something goes wrong with file uploads can be a big peace of mind.
- swagonomixxx 5y ago/dev/null is quite webscale as well, writing to it is as fast as heck!
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- media-trivial 5y agoBuy now with PayPal button does not work.
- mcraiha 5y agoI sent them a complaint. And according to the page the complaints are prime example of S4 usage.
- olx_designer 5y agocat myfile.txt > /dev/null Is a way cheaper :)
- tgv 5y agoContact is write only too?
- karlacio 5y agoOld stuff: https://web.archive.org/web/20160219044114/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85027770/25120SpecTwoSides%20NC.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20160219044114/https://dl.dropbo...
- snambi 5y agoIf it is write-only, what is the point. what is the cost of reading, what was written?
- geek_at 5y agoIt's a joke
- forty 5y agoI don't know why I would purchase this service, it looks like it could be easily replicated using a bunch of shell scripts...
- saagarjha 5y agoCan you provide ∞ nines of reliability?
- baxtr 5y agoYou mean just like Dropbox is no real business because it’s just a bunch of shell scripts?
- hansel_der 5y agoyou mean like dropbox?
- spiderfarmer 5y agoEvery joke falls dead in this place.
- smarx007 5y ago> could be easily replicated using a bunch of shell scripts Well, I see the Dropbox joke here but the service in question is most faithfully replicated with the '> /dev/null' command. Nothing to purchase here.
- hyperpallium2 5y agoPerfect for write-only code.
- theginger 5y agoIt is all hosted in S3 when you click to buy it takes you here http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/payments/submit/s4/is/a/joke/stop/sending/us/money/readthefineprint.aspx http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/payments/submit/s4/... Which is actually a custom 403 page made to look like an old IIS error page. if you put in any url on the domain where the file does not exist you get the same error eg http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/blah http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/blah
- richardfey 5y agoIf you click the PayPal button you will find the description of the perfect procedure to unclick links.
- textinterface 5y agoI clicked the Buy Now button. Good thing it didn't work, because a part of me was thinking about actually making a payment.
- funstuff007 5y agoWhen the heck is R2 hitting general availability? In my mind it's on the verge of becoming vaporware. Although, it did have the nice side effect of increasing the amount of free egress from S3.