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It looks like an amount of space hard to fill with meaningful data. I wonder if they would prevent people from filling it with random junk just for fun.
by fridek 11y ago
It looks like an amount of space hard to fill with meaningful data. I wonder if they would prevent people from filling it with random junk just for fun.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThe fact that the offer at its minimum level (which is only free for 1 month, its an "up to 6 months" free deal) requires a commitment to maintain at least 1PB in the system for 12 months (which means you are on the hook for paying for it for the non-free portion of that commitment period), is probably a constraint on sending in junk data just for fun. As is the fact that you have to migrate the data from non-Google servers -- either your own or some other cloud provider -- to qualify, since you're going to pay for the sending the data, junk or otherwise, you are dumping into it.
- sebastianavina 11y agoHow much space a site like imgur needs?
- rugmug5 11y agoIts a different use case, cold storage vs content delivery...
- PuffinBlue 11y agoNot really. Cold storage is absolutely a necessity when you reach the scale of imgur, unless you want to run the service incredibly inefficiently. imgur keeps photos forever [0]. To do so without some kind of cold storage infrastructure in place for all the millions of photos that will probably never be seen again, or perhaps at a rate of once per year, would be infrastructure cost suicide. Facebook faces a similar challenge and has gone in to detail about how it developed a cold storage strategy to deal with it[1]. I would say that for a service like imgur there is probably a level of parity between the amount of importance they need to place on content delivery and on cold storage. [0] https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/201476457-How-long-do-you-keep-the-images- https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/201476457-How-long-... [1] https://code.facebook.com/posts/1433093613662262/-under-the-hood-facebook-s-cold-storage-system-/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/1433093613662262/-under-the-...
- steckerbrett 11y agoThat's weird, I've seen conflicting information that says imgur deletes images not accessed for 180 days.
- 3pt14159 11y agoOnly hard to fill if you're dealing with text only. Say you're building a video copyright detection crawler and you want to store videos from all over the internet.