Is garbage

  • It made me waste SO MUCH TIME, if you import a 500MB file and then it throws a permission error guess what? YOU HAVE TO UPLOAD IT AGAIN after you fix the permission error, is the most retarded behavior I could think of. In most parts of the world people has slow internet connections so this is just dumb.

    Also, why does it have an artificial 512 MB limit? This feels like those kind of freemium games, where you have to pay to delete fake limits, “You want to upload 100mb more? Use your magic gems! Don’t have gems? Buy them cheaply!”. It is screwed up.

    BTW this is clearly made by design from the very beginning, otherwise they would use a standard packing such as .zip instead of their own format (.wpress?, wtf)

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  • Plugin Author Pim J. Iliev

    (@pimjitsawang)

    Since you spent SO MUCH TIME writing this review, I will give you so much time to understand why we are using .wpress instead of .zip as well.

    So far, we have released 3 major series of the plugin: 1.x, 2.x, 3.x
    We learn something new with each major version about our users and the hosting providers out there.

    Series 1.x and 2.x were archiving contents using ZIP. We found the following problems when using zip that we consider blockers thus we dropped zip:
    1. Zip has a limitation of 4GB meaning that if we try to store a file of over 4GB or the archive size is over 4GB, we will not be able to archive the website properly – since we switched to WPRESS format, we were able to export websites as big as 17GB.
    2. Compressing data takes a lot of processing power – shared hosting providers will kill a process that is using a lot of processing power – we had our plugin removed because of this reason on hosting providers like GoDaddy.
    3. Compressing data takes a lot of time – maximum time a script can execute is limited to 30seconds on 85% of all hosting providers. A website with size of 300MB combined with shared hosting provider’s processing speed takes about 2 minutes to process – lots of users ended up with either corrupted archives or no archives.

    Our solution, WPRESS, is more than 10 times faster when archiving files and folders, the only downsize is that the file produced is bigger compared to zip.

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