Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:43:29 +0200 From: Alexander Haderer <alexander.haderer@charite.de> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Script help needed please Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030814173548.019e3460@postamt1.charite.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20030814084949.012f40e8@sage-one.net>
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At 08:49 14.08.2003 -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: >... >When we started providing the articles 6-7 years ago, folks used browsers >to read the articles. Now, the trend has become a more lazy approach and >there is an increasing use of those download utilities which can be left >unattended to download entire web sites taking several hours to do so. >Multiply this by a number of similar downloads and there goes the >bandwidth, denying those other normal online readers the speed needed for >loading and browsing in the manner intended. Several hundred will be >reading at a time and several 1000 daily. > >.... >A possible solution? What comes to my mind: - Offer zip/tar.gz archives via an ftp server to your customers. - allow customer's server to mirror your ftp-server - probably: setup a mailing list to inform your customers about changes/updates Of course you can additionally install some bandwith limitation stuff. (But I don't know one, sorry). Alexander
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