Online digital photo companies like shutterfly, snapfish, etc. allows users to upload as many photos as the users want and they store all these photos online for ever.. how do these companies store all these photos? What kind of hardware, software they use? What kind of investment is required for something like that?
2006-10-24 08:04:26 · 3 answers · asked by Qurious 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
The cost of storage has decreased dramatically at the same time disk storage technologies have advanced. The result is that a great many providers are able to provide virtually limitless storage to users.
Taken in total the costs are significant, however the same storage that attracts you also attracts advertisers to their respective sites. The buying power that such sites have is enormous when compared to you and I, with discounts that can approach 70% or suggested retail.
For comparison purposes, MSN allow free e-mail users 10MB of storage 3 years ago, yet today's gmail users have access to over 2GB storage at no cost...200 times as much storage!
2006-10-24 08:41:27 · answer #1 · answered by crustysob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they have a server and it can hold many files. the hardware is the server and for the software i don't think any. and probably a lot of investment needed!
2006-10-24 08:12:36 · answer #2 · answered by zachary.sweet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they surely must be using very powerful servers, which have absolutely huge hard disk space, probably measured in terabytes (thousands of gigabytes)...
2006-10-24 08:20:09 · answer #3 · answered by janeshgo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋