Recently I asked what people thought about how photos are handled on this instance.

I looked into it a little more, and for now the only change that I made is running some software the removes thumbnails on old posts. Apparently there’s a distinction in the database allowing them to be found and deleted.

The software is supposed to leave thumbnails alone until they’re 3 months old, and then remove them. There are lots of thumbnails, because they get auto-downloaded from other instances.

It didn’t make as much as a dent as I was hoping for, but storage went from close to 20GB to around 14.6GB.

I also looked into how much it actually costs, because I’ve never gotten an invoice (aside from busting through the API call limit once, but I fixed that).

The first 10GB are free. After that I think it’s $0.015/GB per month. So assuming 20GB total, that’s $0.30USD per month. Totally affordable, so we won’t change anything for now.

That’s all! Have a good Lather Games if you’re participating!