Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:23:03 -0500 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: openbkweb-0.0 |
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:09:08PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > If people start using this against the bkbits.net server, we'll be > forced to shut down http access. We can't afford the bandwidth costs, > we get charged per byte after a certain amount. > > I'm not saying this new code isn't the most wonderful thing since sliced > bread, I'm saying that programatic access to the http servers on bkbits is > absolutely not supported and excessive bandwidth means we shut that down. > > Sorry, but getting at the data this way is very bandwidth intensive and > we can't pay for it. If you use BK to get the data it is easily 1/1000th > of the amount of bandwidth these scripts use. If someone wants to foot > the bandwidth bill, it is currently $950/month.
You may want to enable mod_deflate, and then scripts can easily make use of gzip compressed data. May not be an end-all, but something to consider.
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