Repository size limit #515

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opened 2021-08-27 03:03:54 +02:00 by Ghost · 4 comments

Ghost commented

2021-08-27 03:03:54 +02:00

Hi!

I'm considering making a mirror of my project on the codeberg pages. The main project is located on another resource, where the limit is 1GB.

The codeberd documentation vaguely says:

What is the size limit for my repositories?
There is no fixed limit, but use cases that harm other users and projects due to excessive resource impact will get restricted. Please refer to our terms of service.

That's a bit of a vague answer... Still, what size can I count on to keep me out of anyone's way 100M, 500M, 1GB?

Thank you.

Hi! I'm considering making a mirror of my project on the codeberg pages. The main project is located on another resource, where the limit is 1GB. The codeberd documentation vaguely says: ``` What is the size limit for my repositories? There is no fixed limit, but use cases that harm other users and projects due to excessive resource impact will get restricted. Please refer to our terms of service. ``` That's a bit of a vague answer... Still, what size can I count on to keep me out of anyone's way 100M, 500M, 1GB? Thank you.

steko commented

2021-08-27 11:19:40 +02:00

Could you provide a link to your project and its current resource?

Ghost commented

2021-08-27 12:17:55 +02:00

I want to avoid a situation where you can say: your project can be useful, here's some more space for you (just for you)!

Don't worry, these are just static pages located on the neocities.org

They raised free space in 2017:

Effective immediately, we are increasing the amount of free space on Neocities for all users to 1GB, a 10x increase over the previous limit (100MB).

I want to avoid a situation where you can say: your project can be useful, here's some more space for you (just for you)! Don't worry, these are just static pages located on the neocities.org They raised free space in [2017](https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/03/26/huge-space-increase.html): ``` Effective immediately, we are increasing the amount of free space on Neocities for all users to 1GB, a 10x increase over the previous limit (100MB). ```

fnetX commented

2021-08-27 13:15:15 +02:00

Owner

As of the ToS, resource limits are determined on a day-to-day basis with some common sense and considering whether the resource usage is reasonable.

Of course, working on some huge projects with many contributors is fine to use up > 1 GB (have a look at the FreeBSD repos, they use up more space), while we don't really understand why a single-contributor hobby-project needs to eat up so many resources. If it does, this is normally an issue with wrong Git usage (e.g. committing huge binary blobs, using as a personal cloud storage etc).

Please also note: Codeberg Pages is mainly intended to present your coding project, not to replace other Web Hosters. They'll do the job much better than our Git repo here. The intent is not to have everyone commit their web repo into Git, but provide a webhosting for those who are already familiar with Git.

As of the ToS, resource limits are determined on a day-to-day basis with some common sense and considering whether the resource usage is reasonable. Of course, working on some huge projects with many contributors is fine to use up > 1 GB (have a look at the FreeBSD repos, they use up more space), while we don't really understand why a single-contributor hobby-project needs to eat up so many resources. If it does, this is normally an issue with wrong Git usage (e.g. committing huge binary blobs, using as a personal cloud storage etc). Please also note: Codeberg Pages is mainly intended to present your coding project, not to replace other Web Hosters. They'll do the job much better than our Git repo here. The intent is not to have everyone commit their web repo into Git, but provide a webhosting for those who are already familiar with Git.

fnetX commented

2021-08-27 13:24:39 +02:00

Owner

Just use up as little as possible for your use-case. Don't commit binaries directly, use Git LFS instead. Consider whether your use-case fits a Git repo which is mainly a version control for text files and not really suited for sharing video courses etc

Just adding: We won't work with fixed limits here, because we also want to prevent people from thinking "Okay, the limit is 2.5 GB, so I can go ahead and use up that space". If everyone used the limit, we would have to decrease it. If evenly spread, the limit would be around 50 MB per user I think. Just use up as little as possible for your use-case. Don't commit binaries directly, use Git LFS instead. Consider whether your use-case fits a Git repo which is mainly a version control for text files and not really suited for sharing video courses etc