PF Costs: What are the Server & Maintenance Expenses?

[ISamson]

A full compressed backup is about 25GB.

Is this a lot? I don't know what to make of this...

 

[lekh2003]

Is this a lot? I don't know what to make of this...

This is about as much as about 20 1080p full-length feature films. It is quite a lot for a forum full of text. Also about a million word documents.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

It is quite a lot for a forum full of text.

We store more than text

 

[jtbell]

Remember, every image uploaded in a post gets stored on the server. Also, in a fairly recent change (last year or so), all images linked from external sites are also uploaded automatically and stored on the server, to protect against "link rot."

 

[lekh2003]

Remember, every image uploaded in a post gets stored on the server. Also, in a fairly recent change (last year or so), all images linked from external sites are also uploaded automatically and stored on the server, to protect against "link rot."

So the exorbitant size makes sense. Regardless, 25 GB is quite a lot for text and the occasional media. A single image might just be a few hundred kilobytes. There's a lot of PF.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

So the exorbitant size makes sense. Regardless, 25 GB is quite a lot for text and the occasional media. A single image might just be a few hundred kilobytes. There's a lot of PF.

We have about 200k images and pdfs.

 

[lekh2003]

We have about 200k images and pdfs.

Oh wow. I underestimated the amount of media. The more you know the better.

 

[phinds]

So the exorbitant size makes sense.

The figure is hardly "exorbitant" for a site this size. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

 

[lekh2003]

The figure is hardly "exorbitant" for a site this size. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

I initially thought that it was all text, I was corrected. It seems reasonable now.

 

[Spinnor]

No its more like Ben Hur:

Great scene from a great movie. I wondered how they provided resistance for the oars to make the rowing realistic. Google knows.

"the rowing scene in ben hur how did they provide resistance to the oars to make it look real"

https://www.google.com/search?q=the...9i57j69i64.29783j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

First link,

"

• When it came time to film inside the boat, it was discovered that the large 65mm cameras wouldn't fit. The boat had to be taken out of the pond, cut in half lengthwise, and placed in an Italian sound stage. The oars wouldn't fit in the soundstage, so they had to cut them off just beyond the hull. This resulted in an extremely light oars which, when rowed by the actors, didn't look believable, since you could move them with one hand. To solve the problem, Zambuto sent an army of production assistants to all of the hardware stores in Rome to buy the kind of spring-and-hydraulic piston mechanisms that are normally attached to doors to force them closed but to keep them from slamming. Placing these devices on the oars and the hull gave enough resistance to make the rowing scenes look realistic. ..."