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- ModDB (free member file hosting) Storagecaveatanonymousno cardRper-object-capdisagrees
- ModDB / IndieDB (dbolical) file downloads Storagecaveatcountry-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-capdisagrees
ModDB (free member file hosting) Storage
caveatanonymousno cardRper-object-capdisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/moddbsays anonymous, storage/moddb-indiedb-file-downloads says country-phone
| Free tier | 4 GB per file via URL upload, ~2,800 MB via browser upload. No documented total storage cap per account; Files / Addons / Mods tabs are all upload surfaces on a free account. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | 4 GB per file (4000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | per-object-cap: 4,000 MB per file (URL upload) / ~2,800 MB (browser upload); uploads cannot be resumed and time out after 12 hours; no total-account cap documented. Retention: indefinite while the page exists; a page can be deleted by staff. |
| Egress | Free public downloads from media.moddb.com; no metered egress documented and no speed cap published. |
| Identity | anonymous derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: nite while the page exists; a page can be deleted by staff. anonymous-dump |
| Limits | per-object-cap: 4,000 MB per file (URL upload) / ~2,800 MB (browser upload); uploads cannot be resumed and time out after 12 hours; no total-account cap documented. Retention: indefinite while the page exists; a page can be deleted by staff. |
| 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 | unknown wrapper-only |
| Tooling | Web upload form (requires member login); no public write API. Read path is plain HTTP GET on media.moddb.com. 'Click to connect via Steam' means account creation chains off an existing Steam identity. |
| Composes with | 4 GB per file x unlimited files x unlimited addon pages x free accounts. Also: URL-upload means the source file can live on another free host, so ModDB acts as a free second copy / re-distribution mirror rather than primary storage. |
| Reliability | Browser-upload path is fragile above ~2.8 GB and there is no resume, so a failed 12-hour upload wastes the slot. media.moddb.com answered 200 with real bytes (238,600) on probe, but the site root returns 503 to datacenter egress — expect intermittent blocking. |
| Notes | 4 GB per file via URL upload, ~2,800 MB via browser upload. No documented total storage cap per account; Files / Addons / Mods tabs are all upload surfaces on a free account. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
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Evidence (4)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.moddb.com/forum/thread/how-to-upload-a-bigger-file-to-mo | staff (TKAzA): 'we support files up to 4GB'; founder (INtense!): 'uploading a file from your computer currently supports only 2800mb, if you upload from a url you can do 4000mb+' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.moddb.com/features/overview-about-using-moddb | 'Files' tab for tools, 'Addons' for mods, 'Mods' for total conversions |
| 2026-10-21 | media.moddb.com/images/members/5/4690/4689942/profile/cover. | probe: GET -> 200, 238600 bytes — CDN serves originals anonymously |
| 2026-10-21 | www.moddb.com/ | probe: GET -> 503 (this egress); GET /addons/add -> 200 with 'Members only' gate — upload requires a logged-in member account |
Unknown or withheld values (4)
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ModDB / IndieDB (dbolical) file downloads Storage
caveatcountry-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-capdisagrees
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/moddbsays anonymous, storage/moddb-indiedb-file-downloads says country-phone
| Free tier | No published total quota, but a large installed base with published aggregate stats: the downloads index reports 149,920 files totalling 43,307.57 GB and 387,395,913 downloads. Mean file size is therefore ~296 MB, and the tail is much larger - a live listing for objects3 shows '7.86gb (8,442,728,905 bytes)' on a single file. So 8 GB-class single objects are published and served today.unit objects; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | file size is therefore ~296 MB (296000000 bytes) |
| Retention | per-object-cap: verified at least 8,442,728,905 bytes on a live file listing; the widely-cited 8192 MB figure is third-party (TWC wiki, marked TBC by its own author) and is contradicted by the 7.86 GB file, so treat ~8 GB as observed-not-documented. retention: indefinite; files stay downloadable for years |
| Egress | Free, no billing, and the site is Cloudflare-fronted (Server: cloudflare on the live origin). Files are served from the site itself rather than a separate CDN hostname; the mirror endpoint (/downloads/mirror/<id>/<n>/<hash>) is the byte path and is behind the same edge. |
| Identity | country-phone derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: marked TBC by its own author) and is contradicted by the 7.86 GB file, so treat ~8 GB as observed-not-documented. retention: indefinite; files stay downloadable for years. request-r |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: verified at least 8,442,728,905 bytes on a live file listing; the widely-cited 8192 MB figure is third-party (TWC wiki, marked TBC by its own author) and is contradicted by the 7.86 GB file, so treat ~8 GB as observed-not-documented. retention: indefinite; files stay downloadable for years. request-rate: not documented. |
| 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 | rest, sftp rest |
| Tooling | No upload API and no SFTP: the write path is the web 'Add File' form at /downloads/add, gated to logged-in members. There is a 'URL upload' field (fetch-from-URL) which is the closest thing to automation. Read side is plain anonymous HTTP GET from /downloads/mirror/..., plus an MD5 hash published on each file page. |
| Composes with | One account x unlimited game/mod profiles x unlimited files per profile. Because the unit is a *mod page*, not a repo, cardinality is bounded only by how many plausible mod entries you create. 8.44 GB verified per file x N files. |
| Reliability | This is not a challenge page - it is the origin refusing non-browser clients - so the read path that works for a normal user does not work from a server. That single fact disqualifies it as a fetch layer for the 'serving' workload even though storage is generous. Also note the add-file page itself says 'Members only / You do not have permission to add the requested downloads content' when unauthenticated. |
| Notes | No published total quota, but a large installed base with published aggregate stats: the downloads index reports 149,920 files totalling 43,307.57 GB and 387,395,913 downloads. Mean file size is therefore ~296 MB, and the tail is much larger - a live listing for objects3 shows '7.86gb (8,442,728,905 bytes)' on a single file. So 8 GB-class single objects are published and served today. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
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Evidence (5)
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | www.moddb.com/downloads | (archived capture 20261006020841) - aggregate '149,920 Files / 43307.57gb Size / 387,395,913 Downloads' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.moddb.com/downloads/objects3 | (search index excerpt) - 'Size 7.86gb (8,442,728,905 bytes)', uploaded Aug 22 2025, MD5 published |
| 2026-10-21 | withheld | 'Members only. You do not have permission to add the requested downloads content.' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.moddb.com/downloads | probe: GET -> HTTP 503 (origin refuses proxy); direct GET /downloads/start/222436 -> 403 behind cloudflare |
| 2026-10-21 | wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Upload_Sites | third-party 'Moddb File Size Limit: 8192MB (TBC)' - flagged TBC by its own author and contradicted by the 7.86 GB file above |
Unknown or withheld values (4)
$.evidence[2].urlprivate-url$.free_tier.notesprocess$.per_object_cap.notesnot-extracted$.retention.notesnot-extracted