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Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

dijit wrote: post #134
stavros wrote: post #114

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Yes, it's a database. That's where you're meant to put DATA.

... depending on the type of data. Binary data in databases is usually not a great idea, but tolerable in low amounts. I can't imagine storing images in a database, you're probably better off with a document store. Relational Databases (well, the ones that I know the internals of) tend to have soft limits on row sizes, in PostgreSQL this is 8kb (which is very small for an image); to overcome this limitation Postgres…

This entire comment is accurate. I chose the DB for ease of backups more than anything.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by toyg »

solarkraft wrote: post #179
stavros wrote: post #93

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(It changed in the last hour https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829... )

Unfortunate. 5$ is a perfect no brainer price, but I pay 1€/mo for my e-mail hosting and definitely get more value out of that ... Flawless demand adjustment, though.

Out of curiosity, what do you use for email? I'm currently on Office365 but it's way overkill...

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

sieabah wrote: post #207
sverhagen wrote: post #188

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It seems like you're still dealing with some pretty rudimentary issues here.

He threw it together in 2 days according to what's written on the website. It literally has no semblance of trying to be a long term long running replacement to imgur. Just a dead simple image upload service that works from the CLI.

I did throw it together in two days, two years ago! I don't know why this image failed, when I tried it it worked. Animated GIFs were failing because I don't use them so I'd never tested on them. It's fixed now, though.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

toyg wrote: post #232
solarkraft wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunate. 5$ is a perfect no brainer price, but I pay 1€/mo for my e-mail hosting and definitely get more value out of that ... Flawless demand adjustment, though.

Out of curiosity, what do you use for email? I'm currently on Office365 but it's way overkill...

I use FastMail and it's around $2-$3/mo if you prepay. I love it, recommended.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

solarkraft wrote: post #179
stavros wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(It changed in the last hour https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829... )

Unfortunate. 5$ is a perfect no brainer price, but I pay 1€/mo for my e-mail hosting and definitely get more value out of that ... Flawless demand adjustment, though.

Yeah but $5/yr is less than 1€/mo.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

detritus wrote: post #92
mattl wrote: post #84

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Owner sounds a bit full of themselves for sure. Any horror stories?

Nope. It's a few bucks a year silly image hosting account. I mean, I'm a grumpy, cheap fucker, but even I would struggle to find fault. - ed in fact, to clarify - I have twice written to Stavros, and both times he's been upmost helpful. Proving what a liar he is and how he fails to live up to his marketing.

<3

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

kibblesalad wrote: post #196

I can do this myself for much cheaper by buying a used computer from eBay, waiting 3 weeks for it to ship with missing parts, trading my old bike for more RAM from Craiglist, setting up Arch on it, compiling my own drivers, writing a webserver and firewall from scratch, connecting it to the internet and then using it twice before my ISP cuts my service for breaking TOS by running hosting on a consumer plan. I could h…

Can you do it cheaper?

Yes.

But can you do it better?

Also yes.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by toyg »

kibblesalad wrote: post #196

I can do this myself for much cheaper by buying a used computer from eBay, waiting 3 weeks for it to ship with missing parts, trading my old bike for more RAM from Craiglist, setting up Arch on it, compiling my own drivers, writing a webserver and firewall from scratch, connecting it to the internet and then using it twice before my ISP cuts my service for breaking TOS by running hosting on a consumer plan. I could h…

You forgot mounting via curlftps and using SVN or CVS on it.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by PeterisP »

stickfigure wrote: post #176
paxys wrote: post #101

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$12/year for 2GB. Free plans: Dropbox 2GB, OneDrive 5GB, Box 10GB, GDrive 15GB. They all let you generate public read-only links which aren't connected back to your account.

Dropbox and GDrive both shut down the public links feature years ago (dunno about OD or Box). Is there some workaround for that that I'm not aware of?

> Dropbox and GDrive both shut down the public links feature years ago

What? I routinely use those public read-only links on Dropbox to give [access to] a file to someone or e.g. take a presentation to another computer without logging in to anything, I did it just yesterday.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by jamesjyu »

stavros wrote: post #143
jasode wrote: post #128

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>Yes, it's a database. That's where you're meant to put DATA. Most (all?) large-scale high-volume image storage architectures I'm aware of do not store billions of images as blobs in a database. Instead, they typically store the images as files . The database only holding metadata info and a pointer to the image filename location (or url if using AWS S3 or CDN). E.g. Facebook is one of the largest MySQL sites (if not…

I'm joking, but the volume for IMGZ is way too low (and always will be) for data storage to matter.

Still low even after HN surge?
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