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Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Post by fenomas »

beerbajay wrote: post #38
eponeponepon wrote: post #29

It took us only a few weeks to write our home-brew analytics package. Nothing super fancy yet now we have an internal dashboard that shows the entire company much of what we used analytics for anyway - and with some nice integration with some of our other systems too. I never quite grasp how the above isn't just a matter of intuition to anyone working in the tech sector. Google Analytics thrives on developers' lazine…

> Google Analytics thrives on developers' laziness in my opinion. It's almost never "developers" who are deciding to use GA; it's middle managers or marketing departments.

Isn't GA's main draw its close integration with adwords and whatnot? The dashboard and UI seem pretty clearly aimed at someone who needs to manage their spending on google marketing services, not on someone who needs to count pageviews.

So it's not hard to imagine marketing wanting it; presumably it provides them a lot of value that wouldn't be easy to recreate in-house.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Post by toomuchtodo »

wernercd wrote: post #139
toomuchtodo wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> reduce their potential storage liability Its to reduce their maximum bandwidth capacity required. I don't see it as a problem, considering their price points. They're selling you storage, not "slam 1TB of your data into our storage system in a day". If you're looking for that, ship a hard drive to Iron Mountain. EDIT: Even AWS limits how fast you can upload to S3, and built an appliance for you to rent and ship bac…

If I have buy a 1TB plan to hold 999GB of data and it takes months to push that data up... That ZOMG WHAT A DEAL! of a plan is kinda worthless... "Slam" is a bit of a loaded word, since... if they are selling 1TB of storage, shouldn't we get 1TB of storage? That's the same crap that ISP's tried to pull with UNLIMITED INTERNET !!! ( as long as you stay under 30gb per month)

> if they are selling 1TB of storage, shouldn't we get 1TB of storage?

You do, they're just not allowing you to store it in 24 hours. Some services (Backblaze, if I recall) allow you to ship a drive to get around this limitation.

Notice that all services do this? If you can do better, build one! Prepare to go broke from the peak bandwidth requirements you'll need to build your networking architecture to support such transfer rates, but I always encourage experimentation and learning lessons over complaints.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Post by patrick123456 »

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Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Post by Veratyr »

jasonsync wrote: post #133
Veratyr wrote: post #43

Not strictly on topic so I apologise if this is unwanted but I thought I'd share my experience with SpiderOak in case anyone here was thinking of purchasing one of their plans. In February SpiderOak dropped its pricing to $12/month for 1TB of data. Having several hundred gigabytes of photos to backup I took advantage and bought a year long subscription ($129). I had access to a symmetric gigabit fibre connection so I…

Plug: https://www.sync.com

Love the pricing and features but Win+Mac only and no API largely kills it for me as I need Linux access at the very least.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Post by kbenson »

Veratyr wrote: post #43

Not strictly on topic so I apologise if this is unwanted but I thought I'd share my experience with SpiderOak in case anyone here was thinking of purchasing one of their plans. In February SpiderOak dropped its pricing to $12/month for 1TB of data. Having several hundred gigabytes of photos to backup I took advantage and bought a year long subscription ($129). I had access to a symmetric gigabit fibre connection so I…

Is it possible that they are working on batches, and not doing any hashing/compression in parallel with the uploading? It seems feasible from your screenshot that they are getting ~10GB of data at a time, compressing(?) and hashing, and then uploading, and then starting on the next ~10GB.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Post by tajen »

trebor wrote: post #13

To any of the SpiderOak team: thank you. It's more than just the tracking cookie, though. It's also about Google aggregating all its website data into a unified profile. The data they have on everyone is frightening—all because of free services like GA.

Yes, thank you SpiderOak, even though I don't use you: High profile companies quitting GA means we get aware of alternative solution. Today, I've learnt about http://piwik.org .

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Post by justinkramp »

splatcollision wrote: post #54
eponeponepon wrote: post #29

It took us only a few weeks to write our home-brew analytics package. Nothing super fancy yet now we have an internal dashboard that shows the entire company much of what we used analytics for anyway - and with some nice integration with some of our other systems too. I never quite grasp how the above isn't just a matter of intuition to anyone working in the tech sector. Google Analytics thrives on developers' lazine…

Looking for a good npm / express middleware module that does this. Combines privacy concerns + developer laziness!

Maybe https://crypton.io/
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