LastGraph Expiries
Just a heads-up to any LastGraph users to let you know that, soon, I'll be implementing one-week graph storage expiry (but probably not for premium users). There's now 128GB of PDFs being stored on S3, and it's probably time I started not throwing money away.
What this means is, from around the middle of next week, possibly earlier, when you make a graph, the download links you get will only be valid for seven days. After that, the files on the other end will vanish into the aether, so if you want to show them off you should probably download them and host them on your own blog.
Still, I'd like to give S3 credit; when LastGraph originally launched, I had a server with 10GB of disk space and only a bit more bandwidth. These days, LastGraph is pulling 44GB of transfer a month at S3 alone, and I have 4.4GB of stored user data (and that's compressed, children), so I'd like to thank the guys at State51 and Last.fm for the resources they've donated towards it, and the Premium users for just meeting the S3 bills so far with their signups!
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could you extend the 7 days to one month?
Makes sense, if you loose a graph anyway you can remake it.
I never go back to old graphs.. why not make it a day even?
A big thanks to you and S3 for keeping going in the face of difficulties! It's a fantastic service.
Sounds good to me. I aways download the PDFs to my computer.
Thanks for everything !
Totally reasonable. Thanks for the heads-up
sounds very reasonable if you realy want your graph it's just too download it
Totally reasonable. Thanks for a absolutely amazing service! :)
Absolutely fine. I have actually no idea why people would like to store *anything* online. Why not just download it? Also, I am unable to see any reason for storing old versions of the graphs - the most recent pdf contains all the info one should need anyways.
So, I'm too in favor of reducing storage period to one day.
Very reasonable. No need for graphs to be kept online for ever.
Thanks for the great service.
Fuck that idea to change it for one day. 7 days is very fine! Fuck one day.
One-week graph storage expiry is very fine!
I was amazed that you were storing the graphs at all, when I came back to this after a few months I didn't expect all my old graphs to still be there.
I'd be in favor of reducing the period to a day, I can always regenerate an old graph should I need it.
Thanks for such an excellent service.
Well yeah, that's better, since I resetted my Last.fm profile on New Year's Eve and now I tried to make some info for me again and I still see my old charts...
Why is it taking so long?
I used to hear to Britney Spears and some things like that, and I get to a conclusion. Some people will think I'm gay because of that (I hate that). Then I deleted Britney from my charts, but I still see her on that graphics. So, I ask you:
when this one-week graphic storage expiry period comes, Britney will vanish from my charts?????
I mean... she will vanish from my graphics?
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obviously isn't him because there is no Britney on his graphics.
But, good point. I deleted an artist from my charts and I still see it on my graphics. Why? It will disappear when this period of deletion be lauched?
Why is it taking so long?
I would be glad if I could download graph in JPG or PNG...
it would be nice, if you could change the notice on top of each page from "soon:graph expiry" to "graph expiry" or something. the current handling misleads one into thinking the graphs are still there.
I think that's fair enough. Cheers.
What if you allowed them to expire after a day and then kept all the posters the user has ever made in the form of parameters? BeginDate - EndDate, and GraphType? Then the user could easily recall old posters.
Makes sense for me, I agree with that idea!!
Thanks!!
Wow, what the fuck, someone used my name, saying I used to like Britney Spears!! What the fuck!!!!
As long as it doesn't take a day to render, I'm +1 on only keeping for a day. I just download the data as soon as it is available.
And I'd just like to say, Awesome service!!
Lol, just kidding, it was really me the whole time
What? it really was
I'm wondering if it'd be a good idea to let users delete their posters manually. I find it awkward that my old rendered graphs from months ago are still there, taking up space, when I'm honestly not going to need them anymore.
(That makes me wonder if it's more cost-efficient to use disk space on storing old renders, or to use resources potentially rendering the same thing repeatedly.)
Around the middle of next week? It's been six months since you said that...
im just new to this service, and i was wondering when my old graphs where going to be deleted. i am surprised you have only just chose to start deleting old graphs, good decision.
Dear Andrew Godwin,
Really now, cut those 7 days to just 24 hours. If anybody wants to store files someplace, there are dozens of sites for that already. Hell, you could even add some option for autouploading the generated PDFs to a file sharing site (megaupload / rapidshare / mediafire / sendspace / etc. )
Concentrate on the bandwidth. There's really no need for storing the results.
Cheers
What's wrong with Britney? I do like her. Ok I know it's gay stuff, but I still like her
I'd like to collect beautiful and gay flags :) so please visit my profile!
Cool, this works wonderfully well, I'm still able to see the artists I reset on 31 Dec 2008. FIX IT
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I agree with Alvareo. If I deletet a artist or reset my profile the graph still shows it! I want it to vansh from there.
By the way, you did this post on january (Posted 1st January 2009). So, WHEN THE FUCK "SOON" WILL COME??????????????
Yeah, if I delete a artist it still shows on the stats of lastgraph.
Sounds very reasonable, and I'm surprised you hadn't implemented it earlier - that was very kind of you.
No reason why people can't just download their graphs immediately and store them on dropbox or some similar service, if they want to serve them up.
Congrats and well done on the whole job.
Hi there Andrew, just curious as to the state of lastgraph. I'm keen to update mine from ~3 years back.
Regards,
Joel
Joel: It's still working, and I still keep it alive; if it dies at all, just tell me (Twitter is usually more timely) and I'll give it a kick.
Fuck you, idiots.