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Shrimp
18 Apr 2005, 15:44
Sup n00bs

Still jolling (aka working) here in JHB, but there are some rather pressing issues happening here on UZA with regards to bandwidth.

The site is being constantly raped stupid - on Friday we did over 800mb traffic. Nomie did some blocking on international rapist crawlers and next day it was down to 85mb. Keep in mind we have a 5GB limit here - as of right now we are already way over that limit and may need to move the site to hosting in Germany any day now (which naturally means once you're capped UZA ceases to exist). I'm being pushed very hard to take this option (or pay R0.19 per MB over 5GB, at the current rate we do around 1-2GB over the limit everymonth - you do the maths :() at the moment as it's costing our hosting providor rathee large sums of money.

Anyway, I'm hoping to convince them to let us stay local. I was busy slapping together a new site before I left which is a lot more lean compared to the current one. I want to put this up ASAP to see the bandwidth impact it has.

Please grab as much info off the current site as possible. I'll back it up safely, but if there's anything you want now, get it ASAP. Please DON'T use some form of mirror or website download tool, we can't afford the bandwidth at the moment, rather just get what you need. The contents of the Tips pages can be moved to the Help and Tips forum.


Hoping to do it early tomorrow morning, so please hurry.


Cya again soon... (I hope)
sneaky
18 Apr 2005, 16:12
May the force be with you :P
<A>FluX.v2.0
18 Apr 2005, 16:35
Cant you just turn the site off to guests and visitors?
Only let registered people see whats on the forums.

Only thing is you might get more international members.
D>Fantom
18 Apr 2005, 17:45
good luck man...
also if you want to get together for a beer or some games while in Jhb PM me or Crash and we will arrange ;)
hai2u
18 Apr 2005, 23:16
Cant you just turn the site off to guests and visitors?
Only let registered people see whats on the forums.

Only thing is you might get more international members.

Cant he just host it internationaly and stop supporting Telkom?
<A>FluX.v2.0
18 Apr 2005, 23:35
Cant he just host it internationaly and stop supporting Telkom?

yeah... why not, atleast then you wont see most members for Half a month at a time, durrrr.

Did you also notice, that shrimp actually wants to keep it local "I'm hoping to convince them to let us stay local." ....so its not actually him that wants to move it, its the hosting company.
<A>BioGizzard
19 Apr 2005, 12:45
good luck shrimp....

i would die if uza dies on the local front

u gotta do what u gotta do...peace \/
~MA~[peterpan]
19 Apr 2005, 13:03
....disable avatars and all other customizable images.... that should help a lot....
<A>FluX.v2.0
19 Apr 2005, 13:15
yes and signatures
hai2u
19 Apr 2005, 13:44
I dont think its fair that Shrimp has to pay the price just because you lot cant keep within your cap every month.

If it were not for that, this site could be hosted for free. This discussion has been had many times.
Garfield
19 Apr 2005, 13:59
well i offerd to host this site many times but was never approached
it would have been free and no bandwidtch costs
iRaven
20 Apr 2005, 20:01
Test :P


Still have to edit all my stuff.
Looks nice Seafood.
Max˛
20 Apr 2005, 20:12
Garfield u still around ...howzit man?
Garfield
20 Apr 2005, 20:17
yea i am still alive should have benn dead long time ago
<A>BioGizzard
20 Apr 2005, 20:18
what options r there to help reduce traffic then
besides avatars and sig pics wich has been mentioned allready

i for one don't wanna cut my neck of to spite my stomach
but if i knew what to cut down on i would, without question
Macera
20 Apr 2005, 20:28
Maybe host the site on a FTP like thing, with one ADSL cheap ass account, sure it will cap soon, but it's too bad for overseas people then? Just a suggestion
hai2u
20 Apr 2005, 23:22
Maybe host the site on a FTP like thing, with one ADSL cheap ass account, sure it will cap soon, but it's too bad for overseas people then? Just a suggestion

Thats a crap idea.
Macera
21 Apr 2005, 05:09
Well thanks...
sneaky
21 Apr 2005, 14:07
Just updated my bookmark :/ thought we been down for 2 days now.
sneaky
21 Apr 2005, 14:11
I dont think its fair that Shrimp has to pay the price just because you lot cant keep within your cap every month.

If it were not for that, this site could be hosted for free. This discussion has been had many times. :glasses:




what options r there to help reduce traffic then
besides avatars and sig pics wich has been mentioned allready

i for one don't wanna cut my neck of to spite my stomach
but if i knew what to cut down on i would, without question

Kill the Arcade games section. Theres numerous other sites available where you can play.
Shrimp
21 Apr 2005, 16:22
Those games are mostly smaller than an average jpg image.
187<>Ceasar~
21 Apr 2005, 17:14
Oh well, just go get the latest PHP nuke with good anti hack security. 2nd latest version free also.
Shrimp
21 Apr 2005, 17:18
I wouldn't touch PHP Nuke with a million mile long barge pole.
Shrimp
21 Apr 2005, 17:19
(or 99.9% of other CMSs for that matter)
187<>Ceasar~
21 Apr 2005, 17:27
Ok that ideas out the window "NEEEEEEEEEXXXXXXXXT""!!!!!!!!
Dace
23 Apr 2005, 11:35
Are we sticking with the wiki format?

EDIT: Just saw the news post on the front page :)