[Coco] maltedmedia ftp request

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

A torrent works only one time AFAIK based on the Rainbow torrent I got some
time back. Many people interested at one time makes it work very well.

One person at a time will still show up later and try and get the whole
thing. Posting a password will not help as gmane is read very much later by
new people.

My website gets traffic when I post a link and announce a new file. Then it
stops, but there is continual traffic at a very slow rate suggesting gmane
new readers keep finding us there.


The solution as I see it is to move the files to a server that *can* be
throttled.

In the meantime, password protecting with changing passwords ever so often
given out by a volunteer via e-mail (NOT Dennis) to list members might need
to be done.

Dennis was very helpful in our hour of need, we need to solve this problem
ASAP.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Juan Castro" <jccyc1965 at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] maltedmedia ftp request


>I favor that. In fact, I pledge to seed if the material in question is
> turned into a torrent.
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM, David Roper <ebonhand09 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps packaging it up into "chunks" and releasing via torrent?
>>
>> e.g. "Books", "Disks/Games", "OS9", etc.
>>
>> - David
>>
>> On 21 June 2012 23:53, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <dennis-ix at maltedmedia.com>
>> wrote:
>> > At 09:35 AM 6/21/2012, you wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:29 PM,  <rvanscherpe at penwin.net> wrote:
>> >> > I believe that the Rainbow directory is taking up the majority of
>> >> > this
>> >> > space.
>> >> > Have you considered removing the "big" versions for now and just
>> leaving
>> >> > the smaller files with maybe a text file saying that larger ones are
>> >> > available
>> >> > on DVD?
>> >>
>> >> Archive.org hosts a complete collection of Rainbow scans as well, so
>> >> we can relieve some of the bandwidth issues by grabbing these from
>> >> there instead. Thanks to  Derek for recently sharing the link:
>> >> http://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine.
>> >
>> >
>> > I certainly appreciate all these positive suggestions.
>> >
>> > One of the reasons my CoCo storage 'dump' has a bandwidth problem is
>> > that
>> > there are 80+GB of documents available in one place and folks don't
>> > have
>> to
>> > search here & there. And I have the space for more. I'm interested in
>> > convenience for people interested in CoCo materials.
>> >
>> > The solution I'm asking for is how to reduce demand for the entire
>> archive
>> > AT ONCE. Since throttling or IP address connection limits would
>> > interfere
>> > with my (paying) clients' use of the rest of the FTP site, I'd be
>> reluctant
>> > to do that.
>> >
>> > So if folks on this list will go easy on the mass downloads, that will
>> help.
>> > I've put in a robots.txt file which should block respectful search
>> > bots.
>> >
>> > That just leaves the anonymous bandwidth suckers, such as an anonymous
>> user
>> > in Uruguay who downloaded the entire 81GB on Tuesday, or "
>> psergm at gmail.com"
>> > who did the same. Blocking their IPs after the fact is useless, and
>> > constantly monitoring usage would be more work for me.
>> >
>> > I can, however, password-protect the site and make the
>> > username/password
>> > available as part of this list's info page. Or something else that will
>> not
>> > create more work and keep the balance tipped below my monthly 500GB
>> > cap.
>> > Those are the kinds of suggestions that will balance keeping all the
>> content
>> > and balancing the use.
>> >
>> > Dennis
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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