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Let's say you had an insane amount of bookmarks (or something precious like it). Would you pay to have DVDs burned and sent to you? It seems like a convenient

by timf 18y ago

Let's say you had an insane amount of bookmarks (or something precious like it). Would you pay to have DVDs burned and sent to you? It seems like a convenient re-assurance for users to get DVD backups mailed to them every so often -- but it would be a total pain to support this as a small business...

timf 18y ago
For example: http://www.smugmug.com/help/backups http://www.smugmug.com/help/backups But how do I offer this when we're in colocation or slicehost etc.? Can't be driving to the colocation center every time someone wants a DVD...
joshu 18y ago
I have an insane amount of bookmarks. I can still back them up in a few seconds via wget. Of course photos and whatnot are much harder.
- timf 18y ago
  I am of course talking about something much harder. With big file sizes, the likelihood that users will regularly (much less in an automated way) download their own backups decreases. I broke this out... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458921 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458921
tlrobinson 18y ago
I don't know if I'd pay for just my list of bookmarks (I don't have that many), but I might pay for a monthly DVD archive of the site's content for all of my bookmarks, plus a searchable index. I hate when I can't find a bookmark, or a bookmark has gone offline.
rbanffy 18y ago
A burned DVD full of bookmarks is, indeed, an insane amount of data. At about, say, 2K per bookmark, that's a couple million bookmarks. If one bookmarks a site every 60 seconds, 24x7 that's about 4 years of work. A slightly more reasonable person, bookmarking every 60 seconds for only 8 hours a day, would have to be bookmarking websites continuously since about 1996 to fill up a DVD.
- timf 18y ago
  I understand, I am more responding to the preciousness and non-replaceability of it, the actual application for this I have in mind is not for bookmarks :-)

by timf 18y ago

timf 18y ago

For example: http://www.smugmug.com/help/backups http://www.smugmug.com/help/backups But how do I offer this when we're in colocation or slicehost etc.? Can't be driving to the colocation center every time someone wants a DVD...

joshu 18y ago

I have an insane amount of bookmarks. I can still back them up in a few seconds via wget. Of course photos and whatnot are much harder.

timf 18y ago
I am of course talking about something much harder. With big file sizes, the likelihood that users will regularly (much less in an automated way) download their own backups decreases. I broke this out... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458921 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458921

tlrobinson 18y ago

I don't know if I'd pay for just my list of bookmarks (I don't have that many), but I might pay for a monthly DVD archive of the site's content for all of my bookmarks, plus a searchable index. I hate when I can't find a bookmark, or a bookmark has gone offline.

rbanffy 18y ago

A burned DVD full of bookmarks is, indeed, an insane amount of data. At about, say, 2K per bookmark, that's a couple million bookmarks. If one bookmarks a site every 60 seconds, 24x7 that's about 4 years of work. A slightly more reasonable person, bookmarking every 60 seconds for only 8 hours a day, would have to be bookmarking websites continuously since about 1996 to fill up a DVD.

timf 18y ago
I understand, I am more responding to the preciousness and non-replaceability of it, the actual application for this I have in mind is not for bookmarks :-)