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> Well done, you’ve defeated link rot Until this site succumbs to the challenges of being a free image host? FWIW ArchiveTeam is grabbing as much as possible
by _a9 3y ago
> Well done, you’ve defeated link rot
Until this site succumbs to the challenges of being a free image host?
FWIW ArchiveTeam is grabbing as much as possible so it could eventually show up in the wayback machine. Though what they have now, 47TB, is a drop to the petabytes imgur probably has now. There was an estimated 376 TiB in 2015.
- https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur
- https://tracker.archiveteam.org/imgur/ https://tracker.archiveteam.org/imgur/
- rvavruch 3y agoMy intention is not to be a free host though - that's not sustainable. I hope to fund it through donations and potentially a subscription for enhanced features.
- scrollaway 3y agoDonations are not sustainable either. You need a business plan.
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- celsoazevedo 3y agoSites like catbox[.]moe are popular and most months seem to fail to cover all their expenses with donations. And that's using cheap hosting (ovh, hetzner, etc, and no CDN), I imagine that your Fastly bill will be higher than theirs. For this to work, I think you need to find revenue sources right away and run it as cheaply as possible, otherwise you'll run into problems, creating more link rot in the process. Anyway, I hope you manage to make it work.
- rvavruch 3y agoThanks, agreed it will be a challenge.
- stavros 3y agoFree image hosts just aren't sustainable, the costs are high and it's fairly hard to make that money back. I made a paid image host a while back (https://imgz.org https://imgz.org) exactly because of that reason.