archive.org forum '10gb per item' guidance

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archive.org forum '10gb per item' guidance Storage

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archive.org/post/379280/file-size-limit · rejected-provider · storage/archive-org-forum-10gb-per-item-guidance · JSON · compare

Free tier	Decade-old staff answer; superseded. Real current limits are 1TB/item. Recorded so nobody sizes an architecture from it. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Decade-old staff answer; superseded. Real current limits are 1TB/item. Recorded so nobody sizes an architecture from it.
Notes	Decade-old staff answer; superseded. Real current limits are 1TB/item. Recorded so nobody sizes an architecture from it.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	archive.org/post/379280/file-size-limit	Decade-old staff answer superseded. Real current limits are 1TB/item. Recorded so nobody sizes an architecture from it.

More fields (1)

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  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Decade-old staff answer; superseded. Real current limits are 1TB/item. Recorded so nobody sizes an architecture from it.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

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$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded