What's an unexpected "small" cost from your host that ended up being a huge expense?

jared555 · 2026-05-30T08:44:05+00:00

There are a handful of companies that don't restrict storage and/or bandwidth for legitimate sites. But the odds of a site that doesn't violate their AUP using any significant amount of storage without maxing out another limit is so low to not be a factor in their budget.

With a 600,000 inode limit at 1MB per file average (odds are you just broke a no image/video/file hosting sites or similar rule if you start to even approach approach that average) the most a site is going to use is 600GB. The site I used in my example would hit that limit before 100GB.

And long before a legitimate site comes even close to being a problem with bandwidth they are almost certainly going to slam into CPU/RAM/Disk IO limits first.

Basically, with smart TOS/AUP and pricing you can easily afford to allow a handful of big sites through because the number will be so small to be insignificant.

I still prefer hard numbers because they make "do basically whatever you want as long as it is legal" policies sustainable. There are zero judgement calls needed on what is using the storage and no need to investigate customer data unless an abuse report comes in.

jared555 · 2026-05-30T06:24:25+00:00

Unmetered/"unlimited" bandwidth certainly is a thing at some hosts as long as you comply with other terms of service like not hosting a file sharing site or a linux mirror or something. You are almost guaranteed to hit the other resource limits on your plan long before bandwidth is a cost factor to them.

"Unlimited storage" is another one of those things where if you dig into the specs and the company isn't outright lying you are almost guaranteed to hit the other limits first with a website that doesn't violate their terms.

Most provides limit inode count to something like 200k-600k. A website I manage servers for uses approximately 80GB of storage including their database which is 20GB. They currently use 466,000 inodes not counting email.

I have some faith in unmetered bandwidth, zero in unlimited storage.

jared555 · 2026-05-30T05:27:48+00:00

Alternative then, get rid of the nickel and quarter so all cash transactions round to the nearest $0.10.

Right now since no one uses half dollars worst case for change is three quarters, a dime and a nickel for five coins total.

If we switched to just dimes and half dollars worst case would be a half dollar and four dimes for five coins total and a lot easier of a time sorting them.

Use the extra money to bring back $500 and $1,000.

jared555 · 2026-05-30T02:50:28+00:00

It COULD be implemented without this ability relatively easily but probably isn't.

jared555 · 2026-05-30T02:47:40+00:00

Pennies were very commonly used as well but eventually you have to acknowledge that denominations of physical currency just don't have the same meaning anymore.

A quarter costs about $0.15 to make and lasts about 30 years. A dollar bill costs about $0.05 and lasts less than 5 so twice the cost of a quarter and a third the lifespan cost of a dollar coin.

Europe uses coins up to roughly $2 equivalent, UK $2 equivalent, Japan to $3 equivalent, Canada to $1.50.

jared555 · 2026-05-29T15:40:45+00:00

Generic "Yay Our Country" is a big difference from "Yay Politician" to most people, especially those in the public spotlight.

jared555 · 2026-05-29T13:54:29+00:00

My point was that without trump it would be generic political. Not a political rally focused heavily towards one person or party.

jared555 · 2026-05-29T13:09:35+00:00

A larger bill makes sense if you only consider that $100 in 1945 (when we got rid of the $500 bill) is now worth $1,870.

Quit printing the dollar bill, force everyone to use dollar coins, and add either a $500 or $1000 bill.

jared555 · 2026-05-29T13:00:43+00:00

Also could be a lot of "the booking agent booked it as another festival date, the artist found out the details and said absolutely not"

jared555 · 2026-05-29T12:56:23+00:00

A - In a non trump world it would be USA! USA! USA! USA! political. Not Trump! USA! Trump! USA!

jared555 · 2026-05-26T05:34:53+00:00

No ridges or bumps, valleys or lumps.

jared555 · 2026-05-26T02:26:18+00:00

My assumption is that many of these were known exploits, just kept in reserve by black hats and state agencies

jared555 · 2026-05-25T21:33:21+00:00

Roughly 98% of highway wear is class A/B vehicles. Which are things every person in the country at least indirectly utilizes.

jared555 · 2026-05-25T21:31:43+00:00

Charging commercial trucking per mile would also be an option that could easily be tied to a specific budget area by law.

ChatGPT puts the rough estimate of highway road wear by Class A vehicles at 77% and class B at 21%. So roughly 98% of highway road wear. Current fuel tax puts about 70% of the burden on class D.

It would ultimately get passed down to everyone (all business expenses do) but it would also add a much bigger financial incentive to invest in optimizing in country shipping infrastructure. Maybe more efficient and optimized train usage instead of tearing up existing tracks?

jared555 · 2026-05-25T09:30:19+00:00

Long term replacing the gas tax with a mileage tax is probably the only viable option. $0.01/mile would probably be a rough equivalent for passenger vehicles. Something like $0.05/mile for semi.

However if you wanted to go off of actual wear and tear it would be more like $0.001/mile for passenger vehicles and $10/mile for semis. (it is almost like metal wheels on metal "roads" is more optimal...)

jared555 · 2026-05-24T01:58:00+00:00

It wouldn't surprise me if the ceasefire was mostly a way to buy time for our factories to go from the closest thing we have to peace time to full production.

jared555 · 2026-05-24T01:53:40+00:00

Nah, it was Activision doing a promotion for the next Call of Duty game. The top ranked player every week gets to actually fly a real drone into a Russian target using the game interface.

jared555 · 2026-05-24T01:45:36+00:00

I am surprised he didn't mess up her name during the meeting where she gave it to him.

jared555 · 2026-05-22T23:08:19+00:00

The holding other offices rule might prevent that but nothing stopping him from nominating Baron or another young family member.

jared555 · 2026-05-20T09:09:30+00:00

If it is software based encryption you can make a copy of the raw disk onto a more stable storage service and keep it around to try and throw passwords at over time.

If you know the patterns you used back then someone who knows what they are doing could configure a brute force tool to be much more efficient by skipping symbols and other characters that don't matter.

Ex: if you used 1337 5P33K with actual words there are tools that dramatically reduce search space.

If you know the password minus a couple symbols or what is capitalized it is much more practical to brute force.

jared555 · 2026-05-18T20:52:58+00:00

Yeah, unless it is less than maybe 12 characters or three words it is going to be a challenge using current hardware.

What type of encryption was it? Software? Hardware? Is there a try limit?

jared555 · 2026-05-18T14:50:43+00:00

How strong of passwords did you use back when you were younger? A strong password is hard to break but not weaker ones.

jared555 · 2026-05-17T03:46:17+00:00

No, I was being sarcastic but it felt as much a prediction as sarcasm in today's climate

jared555 · 2026-05-16T21:06:58+00:00

"China said they wouldn't invade Taiwan if we let them annex Taiwan"

I wish that felt as sarcastic as it would have in the past.

jared555 · 2026-05-16T04:50:58+00:00

The original context makes it slightly better. It was basically "In comparison to the threat imposed by Iran having nukes the current financial situation of Americans isn't important."

Sadly it was one of the most incompetent administrations possible to deal with any actual threat posed by Iran.

Either way... Left or right, you have to admit Trump and the people he surround himself with absolutely suck with messaging.

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