BP_4031_en.md

Set up a content end-of-life plan

Identifiers

GreenIT	V2	V3	V4

Categories

Life cycle	Tiers	Responsible
7. End-of-life	Datacenter	User

Indications

Priority	Implementation difficulty	Ecological impact
3	4	3

Saved resources
Storage

Description

Multimedia contents (images, sounds, videos) can improve user experience and services effectiveness. These contents are widely used in live information websites (e.g., e-commerce, news, events) and should be used wisely and optimized when transferred to user devices, as they are massively heavier than textual contents. When they are unpublished, i.e., inaccessible to end users, keeping them in storage often has no business interests. It is therefore necessary to set a deleting policy for these contents to avoid unnecessary storage use and freeing up space for new contents.

Example

Alternative solution

Validation rule

The number of ...	is equal to or less than
stored contents that are not accessible on web pages	0