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twilight-sparkle
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ticky
@ticky

I don't want to put this person on blast personally but I have been sitting here gobsmacked for like five minutes

i have a lot of javascript files stored on there at the moment, specifically around 200 gb. ive been using it to host javascript and media, stored as base64 in javascript as a hack to circumvent CORS

life, uh, finds a way

just gonna tap the sign again:

did you know that starting at as little as US$0.25 you can get pay-for-what-you-use web hosting from NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, and put whatever you want on it for as long as you like?

plus if you host shit yourself you can even enable CORS


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in reply to @twilight-sparkle's post:

mspfa.com is a place where its a pretty big issue, i know the admin of it is planning on (or maybe already has? i forget. im pretty sure he hasnt yet though) rehosting all images on his own file host that is basically primarily For mspfa users. he did the same with imgur hosted images already

its Mostly just newer users who do it really, generally people in tha community try to warn everyone else not to use discord cdn and use file garden instead- now thats actually paying off since discord is finally gonna kill permanent discord embeds lol

in reply to @twilight-sparkle's post:

I'm sorry but this is the scariest shit I've read this week. Please use literally anything else lolsob

edit: did you mean 200 gb or MB of js, because that's the main reason why I'm scared lmao

……… For real?? I am also Very Scared but so incredibly Curious too... Is there a specific online platform for which you needed so much space and to be able to circumvent CORS too?
(If that's not too much to ask! Regardless you're a Legend in my mind forever now.)

i personally have begun just hyperlinking most things that dont require 100% uptime from my website's archives. my website's server goes down for about a minute or two every day around @458 (swatch internet time), or occasionally for an indefinite time usually under 24 hours once every 3 months or so due to a freak accident happening at my house like the power going out. pretty solid uptime tbh. ive always thought people hyperlinking from discord was kind of crazy, like thats some guaranteed linkrot waiting to happen.

in reply to @ticky's post:

As far back as 2001, I was hosting a webserver off of an old Pentium with 2 1 GB drives on a 1.6 Mbit ADSL connection. I now have gigabit at home but I don't think I'll ever want to host a webserver on my own Internet ever again.

fwiw if you can put up with arm, hetzner has some really spicy pricing on a vps ('cloud'). they're half price at 1.5x the stats vs x64 vpses there, I pay like, 3$ a month for better than DO. You need to deal with your server being in germany though.

i guess it's 3.50 usd now, ARM CAX11.

US doesn't pay VAT, ymmv.

oh, right. ipv6-only shaves off 0.30usd/mo. if you can't connect to ipv6 from home, consider that in the price

x64: 1 vcpu, 2gb ram, 20gb disk, 20tb traffic, 3.29usd

arm: 2 vcpu, 4gb ram, 40gb disk, 20tb traffic, 3.29usd

Also instead of spending US$9.99/month on Nitro, you can spend as little as US$4 on a VPC and host your stuff that way. You get the benefits of having your own Linux box to host all the files you want however you want.

God. This is the same shit people had to reckon with when Dropbox did the same thing.