> [!Work In Progress] > This note is WIP; it will be updated in the future as exploration of different alternatives and perspectives happen > The current (as of 2024-05-29) size of the index JSON files is at 400MB, but indexing the packages published in the past 24h (about 4000 packages) blows that number up to ~1.7GB. There are about half a million published packages on PyPI, so even accounting for junk/low-value packages, this approach will never fit into the free tier of any storage provider. ## Compression brotli vs gzip vs zstd