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by Fornax96 5y ago
I have been looking at seaweedfs for a while. I suffer from a pretty bad case of NIH Syndrome, so my gut feeling says I should implement it myself. But seaweed is such a good fit that I should probably just try it. I especially want to know
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by Fornax96 5y ago
No problem. I base the ads I show on the size of the file that's being downloaded. Larger files cost more bandwidth so they get more intrusive ads. But I don't want the ads to be so intrusive that they drive users away of course.
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by Fornax96 5y ago
It's not like pixeldrain has been hacked or anything. I have been serving ads for this company for almost a year. It's just that they decided to serve full screen ads all of a sudden without consulting me. I have removed them comp
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by Fornax96 5y ago
The vast majority of my income is from ads. It's a 10:1 ratio. Patreon definitely helps, and I hope that it will get so far that I have to rely less on ads to keep the site running. The nice thing about Patreon is that they do my taxes
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Okay this is just my understanding of the issue. I'm not sure if it's 100% correct. Cockroachdb slices up its tables in 16 MiB shards. These shards are distributed over three nodes, one master and two slaves. The master gets chose
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by Fornax96 5y ago
That sounds interesting. I'll send you a mail tomorrow
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by Fornax96 5y ago
I'm hoping to find a way to make it profitable somehow. There must be something that I can sell to these millions of people who visit my site every day. And I simply like the technical challenges it provides. I like optimizing and scal
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Do you happen to be using an iphone? The malicious ads seem to be targeting iphones specifically. I can't reproduce it myself but I have told my advertiser about it. I have some leverage here since I'm one of their largest publish
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Proxying the files has a number of benefits. - The first is that I can have all my API endpoints under one domain. This simplifies downloading as you don't need to make a separate request to figure out where the file is stored. - The s
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by Fornax96 5y ago
> So do the user-facing servers act as reverse proxies for the storage servers, or do you simply serve a redirect? Yes, my user-facing servers are proxying the files to the users. > I'd expect that the file access patterns are po
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Thanks for letting me know. I suspect my advertising partner is doing some shady business on my site. I have been trying to catch them but I never seem to get the malicious ads myself, even when using a VPN from more eastern or southern nat
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Thanks My content delivery servers cost me about €2000 per month. I experiment a lot with different providers to drive cost down here. My storage servers are €800 per month. For that money I get about 500 TB of usable capacity (all my serve
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Definitely. Here's a screenshot from my Cloudflare analytics: https://pixeldrain.com/u/dt92pNgf Most of my users are Vietnamese. Unfortunately bandwidth is very expensive there, so I have to serve all that traffic
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by Fornax96 5y ago
I run a file sharing / content delivery platform called pixeldrain: https://pixeldrain.com The system serves 4 PB of data to 60 million visitors per month. I have served 30 PB and 700 million file views since I started trac
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by Fornax96 5y ago
If you do this you should add an 'i' to the prefixes to denote that you mean the binary notation. e.g: kiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, etc
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by Fornax96 6y ago
I'm working on a website for sharing files with large masses of people. It has higher limits than WeTransfer and Zippyshare. I support freedom of speech, you can share anything you like on pixeldrain as long as it's legal. I have
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by Fornax96 6y ago
If it's a file less than 10 GB I will use my own website: https://pixeldrain.com . For things slightly larger I will split it up using 7zip and use pixeldrain too. For much larger files I always fall back to BitTorrent. I ha
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by Fornax96 6y ago
I'm not entirely sure on the specifics of storage proofs, but as far as I know it's something along these lines: When uploading data the renter (that's what we call the node which pays for storage) computes a merkle tree of t
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by Fornax96 6y ago
Thanks, glad you like it. I use Mozilla's pdf.js. It's super simple to implement, just load it in an iframe with the path to the PDF file in an URL parameter. Et voilà, a PDF viewer. Comparing with Filecoin is hard because there&#
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by Fornax96 6y ago
Sia uses reed-solomon encoding to spread files over 30 hosts with a redundancy of 3x. So Any 20 hosts can fail at the same time and the files would still be available. This does mean that you need to upload all your data 3 times. Sia also n
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by Fornax96 6y ago
> If only there were an Uber for unused cycles or storage... let everyone turn their unused capacity into mini AWSs with a common interface and safety and reliability guarantees This is exactly what Sia.tech is building for storage. A co
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by Fornax96 7y ago
Luke ported the reference implementation to Go https://github.com/lukechampine/blake3
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by Fornax96 7y ago
Don't forget about backpacks. No need to carry anything at all if you can just wear a backpack.
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by Fornax96 7y ago
Perfectly said. Removing "illegal" content does not solve the fact that the content exists. The problem should be tackled at the source.