Re: [pLog-General] Service Suspended

[Nick G. <ni...@so...>]

Bandwidth savers:
(1) Greedy clients: edit robots to not crawl everything, such as /stats, /cgi-bin/, etc...
(2) apache mod_throttle
(3) apache mod_bandwidth
(4) apache mod_gzip

Just out of curiosity, what is the bandwidth usage a month running at?
  ~ Nick

Oscar Renalias wrote:
> I agree that the amount of bandwidth being used in plogworld.org is 
> reaching insanity levels... And the reasons could be 2:
> 
> - The forums is probably the busiest part of the site and unfortunately 
> phpbb does not implement any bandwidth saving feature other than 
> compressing the output via gzip. I might consider enabling it if it 
> really helps... Any experience with it?
> 
> - I implemented support for conditional HTTP requests in the plog core 
> and enabled it in plogworld.org but for some reason, it wasn't working 
> very well because no matter what kind of "Last-Modified" header your 
> script sends, unless you overwrite the "Expires" one with a date of your 
> choosing, PHP (or Apache!) will always send an expiration date in the 
> past. Obviously... clients do not do caching if the document has already 
> expired :-( I have hopefully fixed it and now plog overwrites the 
> default "Expires" header and will send the corresponding "HTTP/1.x 304 
> Not Modified" header saving quite a lot of bandwidth (and the same for 
> resources) because pages do not need to be downloaded again if they 
> haven't changed since last visit...
> 
> Let me know if you can think of any other measure to save bandwidth!
> 
> Oscar
> 
> On 26 Sep 2004, at 05:40, bcliang wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> You may have noticed for a brief period tonight that the website was
>> inaccessible.  Do not worry about that, I had set bandwidth limits for
>> the account that plogworld.org is running off of which automatically
>> suspend a site until the end of a month if they go above acceptable
>> bandwidth usage.  I have now turned this off -- the bandwidth limits
>> were set for ideal situations in managing the bandwidth running off
>> the server.
>>
>> No more worries, but if you could attempt to limit the bandwidth at
>> least marginally that would help me out a lot.
>>
>> -- 
>> bcliang_at_gmail_dot_com
>>
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