Edit: To clarify:
Is it even possible, financially speaking, to keep adding storage? I mean, advertisements don’t even make a lot of money, is the indefinite growth of server storage even sustainable?
Or will they do what Twitch does with old content and just delete them?
Yes, that was a simplification of the reality that the data exists in storage somewhere. Killing one drive shouldn’t cause the data to be destroyed, but if you killed enough of their data centers, eventually you would see data loss.
Eventually, you can find a load large enough overwhelm these services. My point really was that theoretically you could overwhelm the system, but that it is unlikely to happen.
That’s a bit of a cop-out. I guess I should have said “in a cloud that isn’t self-hosted”. Like yeah if I build my own cloud then I trivially control my data, but that’s usually not the case.
Well I’m not in the IT department but I do have a baseline understanding of how cloud computing works. Your data has to “live” somewhere, possibly multiple “somewheres”. If you compromise all the “somewheres”, or at least the locations of the desired data in the “somewheres”, the data is gone.
Edit: I edited my original comment to reference “storage” rather than hard drives specifically.
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You can disagree and claim the contrary without being a dick.
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Maybe other people can, but that doesn’t mean I can.
Cool, then don’t comment, or we’ll ban you.
That’s an interesting way to build a community.
Didn’t realize this was a safe place.
I see why people are sticking with Reddit rather than these fiefdoms.
I sure understand why you love reddit more than this place.
Insulting people is against the rules, go do that somewhere else. We will survive without you, I promise.
Someone called me a dick but you’re upset with me for being mean.
Apparently name calling is ok as long as the mob agrees
No, they where commenting on the style of your comment, not your personality. I’m not upset for you being mean, I’m trying to warn you to not insult people in this community, as it is against rules.
That sounds like an underlying mental issue. I highly recommend seeking a therapist!
I have what is called allouttafucks syndrome. I can no longer suffer fools.
It’s a serious problem when you can’t even look at yourself. Seek help!
I know what I’m about son.