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by onethumb 11y ago
How so? We'd need to know both how much data cjensen lost and how much data Glacier has in it to tell, neither of which I know from this conversation.
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by onethumb 11y ago
Very interested, but worried that if it's free, it won't last or be maintained, etc. But in specific answer to this question, if it's really public and free, why not see about adding it to Amazon's public datasets [1]?
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by onethumb 11y ago
Yeah, not only do we preserve the MD5 of the uploaded file for photos, we preserve the uploaded file itself fully intact. So getting the Original back will result in exactly the same bytes and thus the same MD5 hash. (You're correct
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by onethumb 11y ago
We've increased it a few times over the years, so I'd guess we'll increase it again in the future. FYI, it isn't constrained technically or for business reasons, but instead is constrained for product reasons. We can se
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by onethumb 11y ago
One of the great dilemmas with online video is the bitrate at which you compress. The more you compress, the better then deliverability (faster starts + fewer skips, stutters, pauses, etc). But, of course, you suffer quality loss. If you
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by onethumb 11y ago
First, I'm very sorry. We certainly shouldn't be sending you tons of emails if you've cancelled your account. Mind emailing me your details (I'm just don at) and I can find & fix the bug? Second, by way of explanat
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by onethumb 11y ago
Want a job? :)
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by onethumb 11y ago
Well, you're right that we're not plain old storage. We're not Dropbox or something. We're unlimited JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs, and our target market is people passionate about photography. That is a major differentiator,
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by onethumb 11y ago
I should have mentioned that the reason we no longer offer SmugVault for RAW storage is that Amazon has deprecated AWS DevPay, the product we built SmugVault on, and will be shutting it down "soon". Which means we need to build so
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by onethumb 11y ago
It's something I actively think about and we have a few ideas about, but would love to know what you'd like to see and what your pain points are. :)
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by onethumb 11y ago
We support 4K uploads today, but don't yet offer playback or streaming at greater than 1080p. (We will recompress your 4K to high-bitrate 1080p). I think it's safe to say we will support 4K sometime in the future, but that's
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by onethumb 11y ago
Sorry about that, was trying to correct the "They'll go out of business" or "They don't really mean unlimited" comments about our business. We definitely do not support unlimited RAW uploads, and we do recompre
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by onethumb 11y ago
On it, thanks. Just made some SSL changes, clearly missed this one. :(
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by onethumb 11y ago
Thanks so much for writing smugline. :) FWIW, we stopped rotating your Originals (which we did in a lossless fashion back in the day) awhile back, and now preserve them exactly as you uploaded them. Your MD5 hashes and byte counts match,
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by onethumb 11y ago
FWIW, you're correct, we (SmugMug), don't do this.
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by onethumb 11y ago
Option '3' certainly could be on the list, but I'd guess that's primarily for advertising-driving companies. (Google Photos comes to mind). SmugMug has no ads, so #3 hasn't seemed appealing to us, let alone that I
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by onethumb 11y ago
As I was writing this, I remembered a thread from our message forum in 2005 where a customer asked if they could upload more than 2TB of photos under our "unlimited" plan. Remember, this was in 2005. Here are my replies(tl;dr: Ye
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by onethumb 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm SmugMug's co-founder, CEO & Chief Geek I don't have a crystal ball, but we've been offering unlimited storage since I co-founded the company in 2002 with $0 of investment. 13 years later, the company
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CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore(github.com)
3 points by onethumb 11y ago|0 comments
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by onethumb 11y ago
Hey there, CEO & Chief Geek at SmugMug here. Seems like we do all of those things with the exception of always-on-HTTPS (which we're actively working on as I type this). You sound like exactly our target customer, so if you'v
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by onethumb 12y ago
I'm a sucker for pain, or it's in my blood, or something. Numerous failures, a few successes, just kept trying. Finally found something that really worked and still doing it, 12+ years later. I will say - I learned way more
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by onethumb 12y ago
FWIW, we're on a paid plan, too, and haven't (yet?) seen this issue.
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by onethumb 12y ago
I guess the other models (T-850, T-101, etc) are free to go after Larry & Sergey? Great example of whitelists vs blacklists. :)
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by onethumb 12y ago
I asked Sundar Pichai about this at D10 in May, 2012 (see http://allthingsd.com/20120702/googles-wojcicki-and-pichai-o... @ ~35:40) and he said within 3 months they'd improve it... Still waiting. :(
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by onethumb 12y ago
I can't seem to find a contact form on that page?
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by onethumb 12y ago
Ok, sure enough, if I manually go into my Network settings and add the HTTP proxy, stuff starts to collect. Nice. Wish it were automatic. Wonder how anyone will find this to do it when there's no docs? But still can't get it to
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by onethumb 12y ago
Bought it, installed it, launched it. Then nothing happened. The iconography isn't clear (I have no idea what the first mode, the broken triangle icon, does) and has no tooltips on hover. It never prompted me for an Admin password,
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How to make Hardware-Assisted Virtual Machines (HVM) on EC2(sorcery.smugmug.com)
10 points by onethumb 13y ago|0 comments
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by onethumb 13y ago
This is a particularly big issue for us because we spend more than 50% of our resources on serving robots (not humans!). I wrote about this back in July of 2010, and the problem has only gotten worse: http://don.blogs.smugmug.co
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by onethumb 13y ago
I estimated >50% of our traffic was from search engine crawlers specifically (billions of requests per month) way back in 2010. It's only gotten worse since then. http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/07/15&#

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