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Wow, thanks for organizing this. I'm surprised to get this much commitment so early. I don't think size will be an issue. All of /prog/ compresses to 50 MB. Unless we get ddosed, quantity of traffic wont be much either.
If we go ahead with chicken, it requires a runtime library that is 3.6 MB on my system. The egg libraries written in scheme that compile to c will contribute some size as well, but I can't see it being that much more. Then there's the current plan for sqlite, which wont contribute very much.
The constraint of writing it in scheme is a pain, but it's a tribute to the board. Out of principle, it needs to be written in an academic or esoteric language.
We would have the highest chance of retention of posters if the site is accessible, so it would be ideal if it was available on a server via normal http(s). I was thinking of going to amazon s3, like the author of 190chan, but their terms of use scared me. Freenet would be effective though, assuming we all have the time/care to install it.