[IMC-Editorial] Re: [Imc-ireland-tech] Over-usage - an idea.

[chekov feeney]

Hi all,

I have upgraded our account to a high volume server
one.  This increases our hosting costs to $75 a month
from $27 a month.  However, we are currently serving
over a gig a day and our over-usage cost on our
current account is on schedule to be over $50 euro for
this month (and should hit a serious spike around
Mayday).  We can always step down again if we have
much unused bandwidth after mayday.  

A longer term solution would be for us to implement
some sort of load balancing for Oscailt.  We set a
certain monthly/daily/weekly limit on bandwidth and if
oscailt thinks that it is using too much bandwidth in
a given period, it can either cut down on media sizes
allowed, or else start using a back up server to store

media. 

--- kino <kino at mediosindependientes.org> wrote:
> Ok, here's one for the techi-est techie out there.
> 
> How quickly could you implement a change to the code
> to force the links 
> on the newswire (for articles prior to a certain
> date) to point to 
> another site?
> 
> bzzzzzz stop the lights bunny.
> here's the deal:
> 
> 1. we set up www2.indymedia.ie, point it at my
> server.
> 2. i set up a rsync,ftp,ssh/sftp, whatever for you
> on the server.
> 3. you copy over all the code and the media files.
> 4. we set www.indymedia.ie to point all
> article/media links to 
> www2.indymedia.ie, for everything PREVIOUS to the
> date of the copy.
> 5. we make very very sure that www2.indymedia.ie
> points back to 
> www.indymedia.ie for publishing.
> 
> that should give you some breathing space for
> bandwidth.
> k.
> 

Thanks for that Kino, we'll certainly take a look at
it after mayday. However, our old articles probably
use up only a very small amount of bandwidth. For the
moment we are setting up a backup media server with
IMC Scotland for Mayday, using a very similar scheme. 

Cheers
chekov


	
		
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