Just upload everything to /dev/null on your server, unlimited write only storage. Save millions with this one neat trick, AWS salesmen hate it.
Super Simple Storage Service
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Re: Super Simple Storage Service
#52I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison. They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the inter…
i believe there is an opportunity in the market for an advanced data storage technology to support writing huge volumes of information to a single 3.5" floppy, provided the legacy constraint of offering a read operation can be dispensed with.
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#53SQL on Rails
Always cracks me up, never gets old.
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#54This is pretty sketchy. No HTTPS and a fake example website called MothersInLawPhotos
Blazingly fast: No SSL handshakes!
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#55I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison. They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the inter…
i believe there is an opportunity in the market for an advanced data storage technology to support writing huge volumes of information to a single 3.5" floppy, provided the legacy constraint of offering a read operation can be dispensed with.
Easy! Once you've written to the end just seek back to sector zero and continue writing. It's a like data-layer-cake.
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#56/dev/null as a service? Webscale!
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#57The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.
You didn’t download the WSDL
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#58It had me up until the SOAP example!
Lol same
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#59> Imagine the convenience of enabling your customers to open help tickets, provide feedback, add feature requests directly to your shared, read-proof store.
Reliably deployed in production for many years at all Fortune 500s!
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#60I've been so traumatized by WSDL it brings up bad memories even in jokes.