Don’t tell me “the cloud”. Why does the cloud not get full? Will the internet ever not have enough space?
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The internet consists of millions of individual websites that each take care of having enough space.
Like let’s use something like Reddit as an example. It started out as a small prototype that could run on a laptop.
For a small userbase a single PC that handles all the requests and stores all the data is enough. Once it gets larger it needs multiple servers and lots of storage space.
And once the website goes international and has millions of users it probably has data centers across the globe or uses cloud services like AWS.
The internet doesn’t get full as websites constantly scale up. There’s always someone adding another hard drive to a server somewhere.
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