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Title: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: fergalish on June 01, 2011, 07:19:20 PM Howdy, I downloaded the list of users on the forum today, page-by-page, and sorted according to the join date. Surprise, surprise, the number of members on the forum is growing exponentially, doubling every 52 days or so, and has been doing so since the start of 2010, with a couple of faster growth periods. See the attached graph.
At that rate the forum will reach a million people in just under a year. Can SMF handle that load? Can bitcoin's servers? We can presume that the number of people running the client is *at least* equal to the number of people on the forum. Can the BTC P2P protocol handle a million clients? Oh, the "upload folder" is still full. Can an admin please look into that. You can find the graph at http://ubitio.us/file/download/391 It just shows an exponential growth in users. Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: BombaUcigasa on June 01, 2011, 08:09:33 PM In order to download file please send 0.02 BTC to following address. After sending bitcoins, please refresh this page to start file download.
http://ubitious.s3.amazonaws.com/cde314cfc38a734fd4460e99a88c2bc757d7ad91/brilliant-brilliant-thumbnail.jpg (http://ubitio.us/file/download/393) Click for larger image Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: joan on June 01, 2011, 08:23:49 PM Here is another thread with forum records, graphs, etc (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1942.0).
Quote We can presume that the number of people running the client is *at least* equal to the number of people on the forum Hmm, not sure… There are probably some spam bots accounts, and there are people that went away and do not use the software anymore. Besides, not every one is running the client at the same time.Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: fergalish on June 01, 2011, 08:25:57 PM In order to download file please send 0.02 BTC to following address. After sending bitcoins, please refresh this page to start file download. I can't make it free. The minimum cost is 0.02BTC. If you don't like it, complain to ubitious. Or better still, complain to the admins of this forum that the upload folder is full, then I'll put the graph right here for you.http://ubitious.s3.amazonaws.com/cde314cfc38a734fd4460e99a88c2bc757d7ad91/brilliant-brilliant-thumbnail.jpg (http://ubitio.us/file/download/393) Click for larger image Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: grue on June 01, 2011, 08:52:09 PM PROTIP:
use a picture hosting site instead of a file hosting site. Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: fergalish on June 01, 2011, 09:07:01 PM PROTIP: Fine. Can you suggest one that doesn't require me to register?use a picture hosting site instead of a file hosting site. Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: BombaUcigasa on June 01, 2011, 09:09:06 PM PROTIP: PROTIP #2: Google PicasaWeb, Flickr, Deviantart, Wuala, Dropbox, Spideroak, imgur, Facebook, etc, etc, etc, ALL offer gigabytes of free image hosting.use a picture hosting site instead of a file hosting site. Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: BombaUcigasa on June 01, 2011, 09:11:10 PM Fine. Can you suggest one that doesn't require me to register? imgur.com, min.us (they are drag-and-drop compatible btw, no registration).Surely you have a facebook or google account already, which allows you to manage the files after you upload them, without registering... Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: fergalish on June 01, 2011, 09:24:16 PM imgur.com, min.us (they are drag-and-drop compatible btw, no registration). Surely you have a facebook or google account already, which allows you to manage the files after you upload them, without registering... Ahh, didn't realise imgur was registration-less. Had facebook, despise it, deleted it. Have google, despise it, didn't delete it. Here's the graph. http://imgur.com/CG9GG Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: BombaUcigasa on June 01, 2011, 09:25:51 PM imgur.com, min.us (they are drag-and-drop compatible btw, no registration). Surely you have a facebook or google account already, which allows you to manage the files after you upload them, without registering... Ahh, didn't realise imgur was registration-less. Had facebook, despise it, deleted it. Have google, despise it, didn't delete it. Here's the graph. http://imgur.com/CG9GG https://i.imgur.com/CG9GG.png Nice touch on the log axis. Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: error on June 01, 2011, 11:03:39 PM PROTIP: Fine. Can you suggest one that doesn't require me to register?use a picture hosting site instead of a file hosting site. tinypic.com Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: Prze_koles on June 01, 2011, 11:06:17 PM PROTIP: Fine. Can you suggest one that doesn't require me to register?use a picture hosting site instead of a file hosting site. tinypic.com I wouldn't suggest tinypic.com as they're deleting your images pretty fast. I mean, for temporary host it's good, but if you read forum thread like this after few months, it's annoying that all images gone. Title: Re: Time for bitcoin.org to move to the cloud? Post by: TiagoTiago on June 01, 2011, 11:21:13 PM I think ImageShack also offers registration-less hosting
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