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Another point to not storing it: Storing all the images your users generate could require a non-trivial amount of disk space. And considering this is government
by malfist 3y ago
Another point to not storing it: Storing all the images your users generate could require a non-trivial amount of disk space. And considering this is government, they're probably using a server farm and bare metal, and not an infinitely scalable file storage
- flemhans 3y agoBare metal is cheaper so would help them to be able to store this amount of files. 10,000,000 photos are trivial to store on a 4-drive zfs array
- ndriscoll 3y agoIf you stored a 50kB avif (which would be way higher quality then you need for this), you could do 20 million images / TB. Bare metal can fit almost 2 PB of raw storage in 1U now. "Infinitely scalable" is not really a thing anyone needs to worry about.