hcs sightings have been few over the last few days, so we will have to wait until he gets back to get this problem sorted out.
In the meantime, use this URL.
~Sir Stupcarp
Setup a webseeder for Bittorrent?
It's a direct link to the site, compared to a redirect or whatever hcs has set up. This will guarentee that you'll have access to the site, domain name down or not.
If you see the note on your web site "Bandwidth limit exceeded" has your account used more than 37 GB for today, which is our daily bandwidth limit. Your web sites are temporay suspended rest of the day. (sic)
It seems like they update a bit more frequently than once a day, though, as it seems that any time I've run into the problem it is gone within an hour.
We have gone over 40 GB a few times this month.
We have gone over 40 GB a few times this month.
Wow... I didn't realize this site was quite that popular. Though, I'm sure a large part of that bandwidth consumption is GC/PS2 streamed stuff related. I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm wondering if a lot of the people who get that stuff come from the GFF thread.
My understanding is that you cannot directly monitor how this site's bandwidth is used. However, if you set up a page for the streamed sets, you could monitor how many of which one is downloaded. When a certain limit is reached, perhaps something could be set up so that the streamed sets are made temporarily unavailable (for, like an hour, or something). So, for example, if 30-35 GB of files are clicked, then the script/program/whatever could rename the directory (or whatever) so that it can no longer be accessed. When people click on the streamed set links, it takes them to a page that basically says "These files have exceeded their download limit. Please try again in about an hour." This way, not only do you (hopefully) stop people from downloading very large sets when bandwidth begins to be an issue, but you also leave some bandwidth open still, for other use (the forums, the USF sets, ect.).
Anyway, there's my ideas/suggestions. Unfortunatly, I don't actually have any reliable means of setting anything like this up. Good luck on the bandwidth issues though. That's a lot more than I would have expected to see get used (considering the amount of use the tracker had, that is). Mouser X over and out.
- BitTorrent links to save bandwidth on the server
- An anti-leech system for people raping bandwidth of different servers
- Add a special system that prevents downloads after 20 GB of bandwidth, like you said
- Remove the downloads entirely
Of course I am not in the power to do this but I think it could work.
By the way, bandwidth rapers:
SHOVE THIS MIKE UP YOUR ASS!!!
Also, my message wasn't clear last time, so I decided to make a visual representation.
edited 8:47 PM EDT September 15, 2006
I'm going to have to take down some stuff.
Alternatively, you could set up a download manager type thing (like FilePlanet) to keep the bandwidth from being used up.
We tried torrents before, and the download rate was terrible because seeds were few. (If there were any at all.) This stuff is too good to be taken down or pushed onto an unreliable torrent.
edited 8:57 PM EDT September 18, 2006
Again, I don't know if this is possible with servage either, but I've got a lot of stuff on hcs64.com that I'd rather not have going down all the time. When we come back up you may notice the /bonus folder is missing, I have taken it offline until a suitable solution can be found.
and:
"Servage.net team, you broke my heart!"
Some people really don't understand the whole... bandwidth thing >_>
That's like the US blaming Canada for their own problems. Scapegoating isn't gonna get anyone anywhere.
This time the cause was a bunch of One P*****s snatching up the latest chapter which I mirrored. It got a lot of traffic, so it has been taken offline. (The images are still there, though.)
edited 1:28 AM EDT September 24, 2006