RE: RE: System Resources

[Jock Dempsey <guru@anvilfire.com>]

Traffic Bandwidth Report:
>>>Extrapolate further to your 80,000 hits/8 weeks it would be about 1Mb/day
 (without serving navbars. . ). <<
>Thank you Jock for your input. This amount of pull appears to be a
>reasonable figure that shouldn't upset my host and eases my mind. :)
> Barbara
Hopefully others will check my numbers or report theirs for comparison.  As
my ring members move their sites and the rings are running more like their
old selves I'll report again.  I expect that by the end of November I will
have a good handle on exact traffic.
We setup our ringserver on a 3DL (A third level address) with seperate logs
so we could monitor the traffic.  If I had several very large rings I would
setup a 3DL for each.  On many systems there is a small setup cost but
there is is no registration fee and you get the equivalent of seperate web
addresses.
ring1name.myaddress.com
ring2name.myaddress.com
ring3name.myaddress.com
These could be setup with seperate LOG folders and CGI-BIN's (if you are
not already on a virtual hosting setup).  If heavy traffic is a problem for
Ringlink this would divide up the load and allow for more seperate
instances of the program to run without interference.
For Ringlink you could do the same by setting up multiple Ringlink folders
under your CGI-BIN.  This would not give you seperate logs but WOULD divide
up the load.  I'm not sure this is a problem but Gunnar infers there is a
limit (that may be undefined).
Ask your ISP about it.
Jock D.