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After Action Reports! => Buckman Tavern => Topic started by: Burnett on April 13, 2024, 03:05:08 PM

Title: Picture Storage
Post by: Burnett on April 13, 2024, 03:05:08 PM
If I would donate an 8TB hard drive, could it be installed somewhere and used for picture storage/hosting so that we could just upload pics instead of using a 3rd party service and going throng that rigamaroll?
Thanks,
Greg
Title: Re: Picture Storage
Post by: Guns&Hoses on April 16, 2024, 01:46:46 AM
I wouldn't hate that. I deleted the imgur app a while back fpr reasons, and the website is NOT mobile friendly without the app.
Title: Re: Picture Storage
Post by: mmirate on April 16, 2024, 10:33:02 AM
Do note that storage is but one half of the expense of serving images to the public; in many places, depending on the service provider, egressing large amounts of data per month may also be costly, and/or egress speed may be vastly reduced compared to ingress speed. And of course, donated physical storage media can only be attached to physical computers - for all I know, the forum etc might be hosted on a "cloud" server (aka a rented share of someone else's computer).