How large is the Fluther server storage?

Tomorrow! Get your text in WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!

No. This is a text-only site. It’s not going to “become full”.

@Zaku can you explain? Why wouldn’t there be a storage limit on text?

If we assume that Fluther is allotted 1 TB of storage, then given its historically averaged rate of usage, it would take over 2,000 years to reach that limit.

@kneesox

In terms of the storage capacity of this server and a reasonable estimate of Fluther’s life expectancy, there is virtually no limit to the amount of text it can store for Fluther.
Even though the amount of storage is a finite number, it’s probably a lot more than Fluther will ever use.

Even though Fluther has almost 230,000 threads, the memory usage for that is about 7 GB.
It took Fluther about 15 years to use that much memory.

The storage capacity of my PC is 232 GB, so even it could store almost 500 years of Fluther threads.

@Brian1946 thank you.

What, you don’t think we’ll be here in 2000 years?

@kneesox

If we are, then I hope to see you at my 30K party. ;-)

Maybe we should have it a little bit early, just in case.

I’ve seen it.

It’s just average size.

But it’s what they do with it…

@kneesox Text only needs about 1 byte per character to store, plus some overhead.

If @Brian1946 is correct that Fluther has 230,000 threads and it takes even 7 GB to store, that would come out to over 30,000 bytes per thread. But for example, this thread has well under 2,000 characters in it so far. So even his estimates are I think probably more than it really needs.

As for 2000 years from now, er, if Fluther continues the same sort of use for 2000 years… well, data technology may also have improved by then, as well. ;-)

@Brian1946, @Zaku, thanks for the explanations. We also need space for the GUI and the avatars and so on, and the code itself, but I suppose that’s not much either.

Thanks for the question, @RedDeerGuy1.

The GUI images and avatars only need to be saved once, and they’re not very large.

E.g. this image is only 7,252 bytes.

I copied only the text from this thread, and pasted it to a new ODT file.
Excluding this post, there are 2,043 characters in this thread.
The size of the file I created is 22K.

Regardless, it would still take over 2,000 years to reach a memory allotment of 1 TB if the current averages continue.

(ODT files have a lot of overhead per file, none of which is needed to store a Fluther post for Fluther’s own use. All it needs is the text of each post, as we type it in, plus a few bytes to store who wrote it, what question it was posted in, when, and who gave it lurve.)