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Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by StavrosK »

dylz wrote: post #127
StavrosK wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sticking them all in a Postgres database with CloudFlare in front as a caching proxy. Hetzner gives me 3 TB of bandwidth per month, so I expect that to last me a long time. If CloudFlare hates my usage and I get enough users to make $50/mo, I'll buy a dedicated Hetzner server which comes with a 3 Gbit connection, which will hopefully mean that bandwidth still isn't a problem (or just pay CloudFlare).

What plan are these on? I use them and I don't recall either a VM or any dedicated server match those specs (20T, or 1G unmetered, respectively)

The 3 TB is any VPS they have, and the 1 Gb (or 3 Gb? I forget) is any of their dedicated servers.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by StavrosK »

_8j50 wrote: post #125
stavros wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's like a free child pornography host pass, I'd rather not.

So is btc... You will need to be much more proactive about that. I can easily get a burner phone i cash, register gmail with it, buy btc , buy vpn with btc and upload to your site. There are better ways to manage and police fraud and crime (ML can very easily detect age and human body -- require human review if ML flags it before hosting it). Or better yet ban all nsfw like tumblr

Yeah, if I get any illegal images from BTC payers I'll take BTC down. Hopefully I won't have to.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by _8j50 »

lowercased wrote: post #118
_8j50 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you're paying for something, the concept of an "account" has to exist in order to record the payment against. If you're paying for something, that generally transfers a chunk of personal information for anti-fraud purposes. Given that, an email is not a huge ask, and is very useful for e.g. billing reminders. It doesn't have to be a spam thing and GDPR is gradually cracking down on that. Now that makes little se…

> The more you have free tier users, the more users convert to paying and the more sustainable the service becomes. Citation needed.

Sure, something close to subject: protonmail and their free-> premium conversion success. Was on free for a long time myself.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

#134

Post by dylz »

StavrosK wrote: post #131
dylz wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What plan are these on? I use them and I don't recall either a VM or any dedicated server match those specs (20T, or 1G unmetered, respectively)

The 3 TB is any VPS they have, and the 1 Gb (or 3 Gb? I forget) is any of their dedicated servers.

It's 1G "somewhat-shared" unmetered per dedicated and 20TB on their VMs. I don't believe they've ever offered a 3 TB option.

Good choice though, their NVMe is also really nice on the VM line.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by pmoriarty »

stavros wrote: post #112
pmoriarty wrote: post #105

A no BS image host would: 1 - be free 2 - require no login or javascript 3 - give you direct links, without ads or tracking This site fails at least the first two tests. There used to be sites that passed all of these, and really were no BS image hosts. Sadly, I haven't seen one in many years. Now pretty much all of them at least require logins or javascript.

Why "be free"? Why not "pay you"? I mean, where do you draw the line?

Because I'm a fan of the gift economy. This was the way the Internet used to be when it started. This is the spirit that's common in academia, but has sadly waned once the internet got commercialized and grew out of control.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by bsagdiyev »

It's refreshing to be able to click on the image and be taken to the high res version. When imgur took that away I basically gave up on it.

If you're too lazy to sign up for the trial and upload an image to experience this awesome feature, have a gander at my child instead, he's adorable in my completely unbiased opinion: https://imgz.org/itZhcEHM/

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by xur17 »

pjc50 wrote: post #79
_8j50 wrote: post #46

Glad this exists. Still does not replace imgur. You just need a free tier. No way out of that. I am not paying you even $0.01 if I need to upload 2 memes and share it with 5 people. I can afford it but not gonna happen. Here is ideas: make it a subscription. Allow free hosting with no registration but let the image expire (unhost) after N views and rate limit clients. Don't freaking ask me for my email. No, I do not…

If you're paying for something, the concept of an "account" has to exist in order to record the payment against. If you're paying for something, that generally transfers a chunk of personal information for anti-fraud purposes. Given that, an email is not a huge ask, and is very useful for e.g. billing reminders. It doesn't have to be a spam thing and GDPR is gradually cracking down on that. There are children and peo…

> If you're paying for something, the concept of an "account" has to exist in order to record the payment against. If you're paying for something, that generally transfers a chunk of personal information for anti-fraud purposes. Given that, an email is not a huge ask, and is very useful for e.g. billing reminders. It doesn't have to be a spam thing and GDPR is gradually cracking down on that.

This is obviously a somewhat niche use case, but given you accept Bitcoin, you might be open to it.

I'd love to be able to upload files for a very small fee (few pennies) with no account, and then allow anyone with a link to the file to top up the hosting funds for the image. If you run a lightning node, this would be perfectly feasible for sub-penny amounts.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by StavrosK »

dylz wrote: post #134
StavrosK wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 3 TB is any VPS they have, and the 1 Gb (or 3 Gb? I forget) is any of their dedicated servers.

It's 1G "somewhat-shared" unmetered per dedicated and 20TB on their VMs. I don't believe they've ever offered a 3 TB option. Good choice though, their NVMe is also really nice on the VM line.

Ah, yes, you're right, it's 20 TB. I think you can pay them for a dedicated pipe, but I've never looked into it...

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by StavrosK »

bsagdiyev wrote: post #136

It's refreshing to be able to click on the image and be taken to the high res version. When imgur took that away I basically gave up on it. If you're too lazy to sign up for the trial and upload an image to experience this awesome feature, have a gander at my child instead, he's adorable in my completely unbiased opinion: https://imgz.org/itZhcEHM/

I approve.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by papreclip »

StavrosK wrote: post #8
theqult wrote: post #7

I would like to know deeper how much shady are shady alternatives

I'm talking about things like Imgur, which now won't even let you upload images on mobile web (I assume their mobile app does), and instead insists you "make a post" for their reddit-style social network thing. There are some other free alternatives, but they aren't very reliable, and it's generally been a bit frustrating because the elephant in the room is that image hosting doesn't make money unless the user pays.…

Select "view desktop site" and you can still upload images on mobile.

Personally I can't stand mobile versions of pages, anyway. I use "view desktop version" for everything, and pan and zoom as needed

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