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This is incredible. 119 million posts, x ~10MB per picture, is like 1,200 petabytes? 1.2 exabytes? Am I missing something here... this seems very impressiv

This is incredible. 119 million posts, x ~10MB per picture, is like 1,200 petabytes? 1.2 exabytes? Am I missing something here... this seems very impressive.

have_faith 2y ago
I’m making an assumption, but I would guess most of the images being shared are about a tenth of that.
- input_sh 2y ago
  Images and videos, though to be fair, the limit for both is 15 MB. And I think it's a safe assumption there's some ffmpeg / imagemagick running somewhere that reduces the size even further before serving it to others.
  - donatzsky 2y ago
    Each instance can set it's own size limits.
akho 2y ago
You are off by some orders of magnitude.
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dawnerd 2y ago
I believe Dan said yesterday? It costs around 4k a month. Unsure if he’s talking cad or us. Honestly more impressed it’s only that much.
cess11 2y ago
More like 1 petabyte, no? iex(5)> mb = 119000000 * 10 1190000000 iex(6)> mb / 1000 / 1000 1190.0
Almondsetat 2y ago
More like 1MB per JPEG picture
- arccy 2y ago
  if you compress it properly for a fast web experience, you'll probably be better 10KB-100KB
  - extra88 2y ago
    Those are transfer sizes, not sizes of the data at rest. Even transferred, the `srcset` for this image I picked at random includes a 178KB version; there's certainly a higher quality version stored, if not the original upload, something closer to it. https://www.instagram.com/pet/p/C327eIguGRL/?img_index=1 https://www.instagram.com/pet/p/C327eIguGRL/?img_index=1
- vFunct 2y ago
  Not even. Instagram photos are roughly 50kb-200kb for jpg’s.
remram 2y ago
The correct result of 119 million * 10MB is 1.19 PB. Also the images on the first page of the author's own account average only 157kB, bringing your estimate to 18.6 TB... pxscdn.com resolves to Digital Ocean, if he's using their S3-compatible storage, that's $372/mo + $0.01 per GB downloaded

This is incredible. 119 million posts, x ~10MB per picture, is like 1,200 petabytes? 1.2 exabytes? Am I missing something here... this seems very impressive.

have_faith 2y ago

I’m making an assumption, but I would guess most of the images being shared are about a tenth of that.

input_sh 2y ago
Images and videos, though to be fair, the limit for both is 15 MB. And I think it's a safe assumption there's some ffmpeg / imagemagick running somewhere that reduces the size even further before serving it to others.
- donatzsky 2y ago
  Each instance can set it's own size limits.

akho 2y ago

You are off by some orders of magnitude.

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dawnerd 2y ago

I believe Dan said yesterday? It costs around 4k a month. Unsure if he’s talking cad or us. Honestly more impressed it’s only that much.

cess11 2y ago

More like 1 petabyte, no? iex(5)> mb = 119000000 * 10 1190000000 iex(6)> mb / 1000 / 1000 1190.0

Almondsetat 2y ago

More like 1MB per JPEG picture

arccy 2y ago
if you compress it properly for a fast web experience, you'll probably be better 10KB-100KB
- extra88 2y ago
  Those are transfer sizes, not sizes of the data at rest. Even transferred, the `srcset` for this image I picked at random includes a 178KB version; there's certainly a higher quality version stored, if not the original upload, something closer to it. https://www.instagram.com/pet/p/C327eIguGRL/?img_index=1 https://www.instagram.com/pet/p/C327eIguGRL/?img_index=1
vFunct 2y ago
Not even. Instagram photos are roughly 50kb-200kb for jpg’s.

remram 2y ago

The correct result of 119 million * 10MB is 1.19 PB. Also the images on the first page of the author's own account average only 157kB, bringing your estimate to 18.6 TB... pxscdn.com resolves to Digital Ocean, if he's using their S3-compatible storage, that's $372/mo + $0.01 per GB downloaded