Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Google is apparently planning the GDrive...

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 3/7/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> > Evidently, they think that can store it all, which makes sense since
> > gmail accounts are pretty much flawless at almost 3 gigs apiece now.
>
> Remember that they are not using 3GB per user.  They are giving me 2701
> MB, but I'm using 557 MB, and I'll bet that few people are using that much
> (I know that some of you use more, but you are not the norm!)

I know that they're not at 3 GB per user, but it's still clear that
the system has scaled remarkably well.  To be honest, getting within a
factor of 10 of the 3 gigs per user (which they have done) is probably
the hard part.  For obvious reasons, I don't think they'll be storing
any media files that they or a select group of friends didn't sell you
(and that costs them almost nothing).  Photos might be their largest
single source.  So when you boil it down, the user files (rather than
applications and media) most people have don't actually add up to that
that much.  Absent my iTunes/iPhoto stuff and research materials I
probably can't share out that way, I'm almost certainly well under 50
GB.

> They also
> seem to be using linking strategies so that my 557 MB probably doesn't
> really use up that much space.

That's probably right, and I expect that this will be even more true
if they start storing consumer data.

> I'm impressed with the idea, but I wonder why they don't want to do web
> hosting.  Any idea?

Uh...because they already do?  Or does this not count:

http://www.blogger.com/start

It's maybe not your website, but it's pretty close.

> Web hosting seems like a logical service for Google
> to offer.  Maybe the problem is that they don't want to control how web
> pages are formatted, so the can't put ads on the web pages.

I kinda doubt that's it.

jking

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