This series of concerns is close to my heart. Some time ago, I built a toy site that lets people make Gifs out of YouTube videos[0]. I put no limits on the serv

This series of concerns is close to my heart. Some time ago, I built a toy site that lets people make Gifs out of YouTube videos[0]. I put no limits on the service since I'm lazy and limits would have required extra work. This means there's no limit on the size of gifs created, nor any limit on their length. Additionally, a user can make as many gifs as they like. I think one can imagine where this is going. Since it's inception, people have made tens of thousands of gifs, and now I have hundreds of gigabytes of gifs I have to host. Recently, to save space I had to go through and delete pretty much all the gifs that had been created before a particular time. I downloaded them to my personal computer to ensure that some record of them remains, but still, I potentially broke tens of thousands of links. In the future, I'll be putting all sorts of limits on user creations, but I'm curious how bad action like this is? [0] - http://gifmachine.xwl.me/ http://gifmachine.xwl.me/