So a question for Pinboard users especially. How big should I let an archiving account (or a regular account, for that matter) get before I start to cut people off? I'm talking in terms of bookmarks and terabytes stored. What's a generous allowance for both in your eyes?
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Replying to @Pinboard
I wanted to say “same as the default limit for Google Drive, which is 15G”, which sounded very high, but holy hell I’m already eating 10G of archive space. 100G!
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Replying to @tqbf
I've got: >100GB = 134 users >200GB = 32 users >300GB = 15 users >400GB = 5 users >500Gb = 2 users (after I cut off the dude with 1.2 TB)
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Do you store the archives on a compressed filesystem that can dedupe byte sequences across all users? If so I'd expect to see these numbers drop somewhat. In general I'd say at least 250gb though.
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Which is ~$60/yr on S3 (before xfer costs), jfwiw.
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Which would be a massive waste of $, I'd use B2 or literally any other storage provider and stick a deduped filesystem on it. 250gb should be no more than $15/yr tops
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To clarify these figures would be the cost to
@pinboard, the user-facing prices should have a margin tacked on top of course.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @thesquashSH @tqbf
Consider a spherical online business of radius R, uniformly filled with customers
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I will just emphasize that this thread did not ask "how do I run an online business?" but what people consider a reasonable cutoff for storage use (and number of bookmarks, though no one has addressed that). I think I will just absorb from this the lesson "never ask on Twitter"
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Replying to @Pinboard @thesquashSH
I know you’re being snarky but basically I think you’re right; to make actual money you need to raise prices across the board, so to preserve your sanity, just do a cut-off; somewhere around 100 sounds right to me, since you’re beating S3 prices now.
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A 100 GB cutoff was what I had in my head, so it's helpful to see it be the consensus answer here, too.
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Don’t leave money on the table: consider extorting the abusers with a “premiere account” that will still make you money Or not. Doing things the easy way is also good
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