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The difference is: you pay for Google Drive (including bandwidth). To give you some perspective: I have a popular open source project hosted on Google Code. I
by kkowalczyk 13y ago
The difference is: you pay for Google Drive (including bandwidth).
To give you some perspective: I have a popular open source project hosted on Google Code. I host my binary downloads via S3 and since it's popular, it costs me $200+ a month in bandwidth.
If I used Google Code for hosting those binaries, Google would have to pay for that and why should they?
And that's a grey area example i.e. I would be using the service as it was intended to be used.
I'm pretty sure plenty of smart alecks simply abuse the service by putting and random stuff there to avoid paying for bandwidth.
This is a tragedy of commons: Google offered a free service, people started abusing it via excessive usage and Google chose to no longer offer that free service (as opposed to e.g. spend their resource on never-ending battle of policing abusers).
That is very much their right.
- Jabbles 13y agoPeople download 2TB of binaries from you a month? What do you work on?
- aidenn0 13y agoI'm guessing it's Sumatra PDF; author: Krzysztof Kowalczyk, hosted on google code, and fairly popular.
- Jabbles 13y agoThanks. At 4MB that's 500,000 downloads a month. Awesome work.
- barbs 13y agoA little off-topic, but thanks Krzystof for Sumatra PDF. Easily the best PDF-viewer on Windows.
- glitchdout 13y agoA little too much yellow. But yeah, I too find it to be the best.
- StavrosK 13y agoWhy not get a Hetzner box or something? http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4 http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4 It's $60 for 10 TB/mo.
- zmmmmm 13y agoIf it was purely a cost of bandwidth issue they could easily limit the size of downloads. Most projects on Google Code only need to offer downloads of a few MB in size to fulfil the basic need. It's really hard to imagine that being a significant cost to Google, and the convenience of having downloads integrated into the service is huge.