Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months agoHuge internet emulation website ROMhacking changes to news only and releases entire 11GB of files onto Internet Archive for preservationreadwrite.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1110arrow-down1external-linkHuge internet emulation website ROMhacking changes to news only and releases entire 11GB of files onto Internet Archive for preservationreadwrite.comYuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareGay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·4 months agoThis was likely a result of incompetence and boomer level stubborness/entitlement from the site owner. The fact that the article didn’t even mention this response is bad journalism.
minus-squareFindom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 months ago…what the hell were they doing that made S3 more cost-effective for that amount of storage?
minus-squareChronicon [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 months agojudging by the age of the site and temperament of the owner, probably just running a big (maybe even physical, colocated) server that could handle the peak load and letting it sit idle all other times.
This was likely a result of incompetence and boomer level stubborness/entitlement from the site owner. The fact that the article didn’t even mention this response is bad journalism.
…what the hell were they doing that made S3 more cost-effective for that amount of storage?
judging by the age of the site and temperament of the owner, probably just running a big (maybe even physical, colocated) server that could handle the peak load and letting it sit idle all other times.