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September 4, 2018

Of hosting files in url minifiers [Passing < 4k operational orders]

Filed under: Compression,Hosting,Intelligence,Web Server — Patrick Durusau @ 4:56 pm

Of hosting files in url minifiers by Paul Masurel.

From the post:

Today I had an epiphany while staring at a very long url. I thought: “Url minifiers are really nice to store all of this data for free”. And then it stroke me… One can really store 4KB of arbitrary data with a url minifier system and share it for free.

Now there’s a clever thought!

Apologies for missing this when it first appeared. I can imagine several interesting uses for this insight.

Such as the passing of operational orders via a url minifier system.

Tasking the intelligence community to discover and inspect every shortened url, everyday.

I saw < 4k operational orders because the more advanced the technique, the greater the technical overhead. The base 4k is trivial.

For example, https://bit.ly/2wHB3zH, which gives a 404, but also the text:

http://www.nowhere.com/Today-is-the-day-we-smite-our-oppressors-at-the-usual-location

All I needed was a public url minifier.

Please share this post with anyone who has a need to pass < 4k operational orders or information.

Be sure to credit Paul Masurel with this discovery. Me, I find interesting use cases and applications of technology.

August 16, 2012

Getting a Big Neo4j Test Box for Cheap!

Filed under: Hosting,Neo4j — Patrick Durusau @ 4:11 pm

Getting a Big Neo4j Test Box for Cheap! by Max De Marzi.

From the post:

When embarking on a new Neo4j project, one of the things you have to figure out is where to run it. Most of the time the answer is just your laptop. Other times, using Heroku works great. However, if you are at the stage of your testing where you have billions of nodes and relationships, you need something a little bigger.

If you are not ready to commit to purchasing a 100k server for testing, then I suggest you borrow one for a short time. You can try to spin up an Amazon EC2 instance, the high memory large ones go up to 60 gigs of RAM. But what if you need more? Lots more?

The answer for me has been WebNX.com It’s a data center out of Los Angeles that has great deals on big boxes.

I won’t ruin the surprise for you!

Read Max’s post and then go to WebNX.com.

The prices are only going to get better.

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