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Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by AnneDev »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #106

I have some thoughts for you as someone who's done this before. I used to run a file hosting site called MediaCrush with a buddy of mine. It was moderately successful, but we ended up shutting it down. I later switched to a file host called pomf.se, which eventually was shut down as well. I wrote a blog post that sums up my thoughts on public file hosting: On the profitability of image hosting websites - https://drew…

I think that in the end, the way to really address these issues is with WebTorrent or a similar service. When you're online, you should be:

    1. contributing your own bandwidth to the images you upload

    2. contribute your own bandwidth to the images you look at.
If you look at an image, maybe you should be required to seed it twice over. If you upload your image, maybe you have to seed it at least 10 times for it to stay up past a certain deadline.

As a user of image websites and, well, websites in general, I'd gladly contribute my bandwidth to help the services run. Or even act as a mirror rather than a shared peer.

What do you think about that? It could lessen the load on the image host and help scale things. I just can't seen this happening if you embed an image directly unless you embed iframes or require users to go to the site itself.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by NoFile »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #106

I have some thoughts for you as someone who's done this before. I used to run a file hosting site called MediaCrush with a buddy of mine. It was moderately successful, but we ended up shutting it down. I later switched to a file host called pomf.se, which eventually was shut down as well. I wrote a blog post that sums up my thoughts on public file hosting: On the profitability of image hosting websites - https://drew…

This was an interesting read and we will do our best to avoid this fate.

Right now we're focusing on patching bugs and providing a stable service, but in the future a premium service will be created which targets heavy users.

PS You can change the status of the last active host in your list (Minus.com) to shut down as well.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by NoFile »

ptrptr wrote: post #109

OK, this looks promising but one question - how do you plan to avoid rapidshare, uploaded and mega fate? This is not 2006, copyright owners will tear you apart day 1.

Any valid content removal requests that come in through the contact form will be obeyed.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by NoFile »

adamkochanowicz wrote: post #98

Really cool stuff! I love the design. One bit of feedback I would give you though is to go easy on the CSS transitions, especially where the user has a target for interaction (navigation links, dragging and dropping...). Not that it's not visually interesting to keep them but makes it a little painful to have moving targets.

Other users complained about this as well. A setting will be added which will disable the animations for those that find them annoying.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by Sephr »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #106

I have some thoughts for you as someone who's done this before. I used to run a file hosting site called MediaCrush with a buddy of mine. It was moderately successful, but we ended up shutting it down. I later switched to a file host called pomf.se, which eventually was shut down as well. I wrote a blog post that sums up my thoughts on public file hosting: On the profitability of image hosting websites - https://drew…

Sounds like you could use P2P caching to offset traffic costs.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by NoFile »

jgrahamc wrote: post #110
NoFile wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only static content is served over Cloudflare. All uploads/downloads are done directly with the storage servers.

You sure about that? I just uploaded a file and then.. curl -o /dev/null -v https://nofile.io/f/01ZAJO7Qhfe * Trying 104.18.59.89... * Connected to nofile.io (104.18.59.89) port 443 (#0) * TLS 1.2 connection using TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 * Server certificate: sni212289.cloudflaressl.com * Server certificate: COMODO ECC Domain Validation Secure Server CA 2 * Server certificate: COMODO ECC Certification…

Yes, completely positive. You need to make sure that you're following the 301 redirects as that is not the final file location, hence why the data returned is only 957 bytes.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by jgrahamc »

NoFile wrote: post #146
jgrahamc wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You sure about that? I just uploaded a file and then.. curl -o /dev/null -v https://nofile.io/f/01ZAJO7Qhfe * Trying 104.18.59.89... * Connected to nofile.io (104.18.59.89) port 443 (#0) * TLS 1.2 connection using TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 * Server certificate: sni212289.cloudflaressl.com * Server certificate: COMODO ECC Domain Validation Secure Server CA 2 * Server certificate: COMODO ECC Certification…

Yes, completely positive. You need to make sure that you're following the 301 redirects as that is not the final file location, hence why the data returned is only 957 bytes.

I see. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by oron »

NoFile wrote: post #135
oron wrote: post #91

I'm operating DropJar.om and I can say it's a big headache. For some reason I keep getting DMCA notices from all kinds of lawyers and the occasional take down notice from police when ISIS videos are uploaded there. No income and tons of complaints. http://dropjar.com

If we receive valid content removal request through our contact form then we will have to take the content down. Judging by your username - is there a connection between you and the infamous file hosting site Oron that closed down a few year ago?

nope.

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by fiatjaf »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #106

I have some thoughts for you as someone who's done this before. I used to run a file hosting site called MediaCrush with a buddy of mine. It was moderately successful, but we ended up shutting it down. I later switched to a file host called pomf.se, which eventually was shut down as well. I wrote a blog post that sums up my thoughts on public file hosting: On the profitability of image hosting websites - https://drew…

All users are expected to donate. Ok, but how can this work better than just selling storage space like S3, Dropbox or whatever?

Re: Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks

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Post by ballenf »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #106

I have some thoughts for you as someone who's done this before. I used to run a file hosting site called MediaCrush with a buddy of mine. It was moderately successful, but we ended up shutting it down. I later switched to a file host called pomf.se, which eventually was shut down as well. I wrote a blog post that sums up my thoughts on public file hosting: On the profitability of image hosting websites - https://drew…

I'd question the assumption that all having web pages be immortal is a good thing. There is great value in letting natural processes erode items or things that don't get maintained.

Throughout history, we've learned to write down and preserve important stuff. Sometimes we've gotten it wrong or we create huge single points of failure (see, e.g., Library of Alexandria), but we should be careful in assuming that preserving everything is inherently better than the historical approach.

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