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Debian Salsa (salsa.debian.org) - GitLab with Generic package registry Storagecaveatinstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
debian snapshot Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R
Debian snapshot archive (snapshot.debian.org) Storagefails: quotainstitutionno cardR

Debian Salsa (salsa.debian.org) - GitLab with Generic package registry Storage

caveatinstitutionno cardRper-object-cap

salsa.debian.org · paas · storage/debian-salsa-gitlab-with-generic-package-registry · JSON · compare

Free tier	No published total-storage quota, but a fully published per-object table on the instance-configuration page. Package registry per-file caps: Generic 5 GiB, Conan 3 GiB, Maven 3 GiB, PyPI 3 GiB, Terraform 1 GiB, npm/NuGet 500 MiB, Helm 5 MiB. Core GitLab: max push size '-' (unlimited), max attachment 20 MiB, job artifact 750 MiB, pages 300 MiB, snippet 50 MiB, import remote file 10 GiB, download file 5 GiB. unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	per-file caps: Generic 5 GiB (5368709120 bytes)
Retention	per-object-cap: 5 GiB per Generic package file; 750 MiB per CI artifact; 300 MiB Pages. retention: indefinite for packages and repos (no pruning policy published on this page)
Egress	Free. Debian-hosted infrastructure with no billing, no per-GB meter, and package/registry downloads served straight from the instance. No Cloudflare dependency to worry about.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: y per-file caps: Generic 5 GiB, Conan 3 GiB, Maven 3 GiB, PyPI 3 GiB, Terraform 1 GiB, npm/NuGet 500 MiB, Helm 5 MiB. Core GitLab: max push size '-' (unlimited), max attachment 20 Mi
Limits	write-gated reviewed due to the high volume of spam registrations source write-gated approved source per-object-cap per-file caps: Generic 5 GiB source per-object-cap: 5 GiB per Generic package file; 750 MiB per CI artifact; THE GATE: 'New user registrations are manually reviewed due to the high volume of spam registrations. It may take a few days before a new account is approved.'
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	ssh, git git
Tooling	Full GitLab: `git` over SSH/HTTPS, GitLab Generic Package API (`PUT /projects/:id/packages/generic/:package_name/:version/:file_name`), CI runners, `glab`/`lab` CLIs, `python-gitlab`. Max push size is '-' (unlimited) which is the interesting cell - the per-object cap is on the registry, not on git.
Composes with	Unlimited projects per account x 5 GiB per Generic-package file x unlimited files per package version x unlimited versions. Plus unlimited-size git pushes as a second surface. The binding limit is account creation, not storage.
Reliability	Manual registration review is the whole story - it converts account-farming from an API call into a queue measured in days, which is fatal for the 'unlimited free orgs' pattern that made the Google-Drive-service-account trick work. Once in, the surface is clean and standard GitLab. Public read is fine (project pages and package downloads are anonymous).
Notes	No published total-storage quota, but a fully published per-object table on the instance-configuration page. Package registry per-file caps: Generic 5 GiB, Conan 3 GiB, Maven 3 GiB, PyPI 3 GiB, Terraform 1 GiB, npm/NuGet 500 MiB, Helm 5 MiB. Core GitLab: max push size '-' (unlimited), max attachment 20 MiB, job artifact 750 MiB, pages 300 MiB, snippet 50 MiB, import remote file 10 GiB, download file 5 GiB.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[2].value` limit:per-object-cap 5.0 GiB

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	salsa.debian.org/help/instance_configuration	'## Size Limits ... Maximum push size \| - ... Maximum job artifact size \| 750 MiB'; '## Package registry ... Generic \| 5 GiB'
2026-10-21	salsa.debian.org/users/sign_up	'New user registrations are manually reviewed due to the high volume of spam registrations. It may take a few days before a new account is approved.'
2026-10-21	salsa.debian.org/help/instance_configuration	'There are several size limits in place for the package registry.' (table as quoted in quota)

Unknown or withheld values (3)

$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted

debian snapshot Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

snapshot.debian.org/ · rejected-provider · storage/debian-snapshot · JSON · compare

Free tier	Read-only ingest of the Debian archive; no user write path at any size. 172 TB is theirs, not yours. 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	Read-only ingest of the Debian archive; no user write path at any size. 172 TB is theirs, not yours.
Notes	Read-only ingest of the Debian archive; no user write path at any size. 172 TB is theirs, not yours.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	snapshot.debian.org/	Read-only ingest of the Debian archive no user write path at any size. 172 TB is theirs, not yours.

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Read-only ingest of the Debian archive; no user write path at any size. 172 TB is theirs, not yours.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.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

Debian snapshot archive (snapshot.debian.org) Storage

fails: quotainstitutionno cardR

snapshot.debian.org · academic · storage/debian-snapshot-archive · JSON · compare

Free tier	No user quota because there is no user write path - snapshot ingests the Debian archive itself. Scale reference from the site's own news: 'Snapshot is currently holding 172TB of data' (2024-10-08), up from 135 TB (2022) and 24 TB (2014), on 2 x 164 TB RAID6 arrays. unit TB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Free, two sites (Glasklar + LeaseWeb). Netfilter rate limiting was explicitly disabled ('It will be replaced by rate limiting on the HTTP layer').
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: snapshot is a preservation tool, not storage you can use. API verified live. None - you cannot add content. Valuable only as a source of old Debian packages for a corpus, not as a
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest, rclone rest
Tooling	apt with a dated sources.list entry, `debian-snapshot` machine-usable API at /mr/ (e.g. /mr/timestamp/), plain HTTPS. No rclone backend.
Composes with	None - you cannot add content. Valuable only as a source of old Debian packages for a corpus, not as a place to put your data.
Reliability	Read-only by construction. Included to close the category: Debian's snapshot is a preservation tool, not storage you can use. API verified live.
Notes	No user quota because there is no user write path - snapshot ingests the Debian archive itself. Scale reference from the site's own news: 'Snapshot is currently holding 172TB of data' (2024-10-08), up from 135 TB (2022) and 24 TB (2014), on 2 x 164 TB RAID6 arrays.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	snapshot.debian.org/	'Snapshot is currently holding 172TB of data'; 'The Netfilter rate limiting has been disabled ... rate limiting on the HTTP layer'
2026-10-21	snapshot.debian.org/mr/timestamp/	probe: GET -> 200 JSON, debian timestamps from 20050312T000000Z onward
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: GET /archive/debian/20250101T000000Z/dists/bookworm/Release -> 302 (redirect to a dated snapshot; live)

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "No user quota because there is no user write path - snapshot ingests the Debian archive itself. Scale reference from the site's own news: 'Snapshot is currently holding 172TB of data' (2024-10-08), up from 135 TB (2022) and 24 TB (2014), on 2 x 164 TB RAID6 arrays.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (7)

$.evidence[2].url private-url
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted