Pscience5 Forum

MartinG · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:01 pm Post subject: Pscience5 bandwidth issues

I've been notified by my hosting company that the Pscience5 site is getting near to it's monthly bandwidth limit (10GB). Since they charge what I consider to be a fairly hefty fee for every GB that you exceed this by (£5/GB), I'm trying to think in advance about how best to handle things. I can think of a few suggestions off the top of my head and I'd be interested in people's views before I make any decisions.

If anyone has any suggestions not included in the poll then please add them below - thanks!

Joel · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

If you want, I wouldn't mind hosting some files on my own server.

Joel · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

Mirrors gone for now.

Just a test Smile

Kees vd Straten · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 211 Location: The Netherlands

Martin,

In the Netherlands, you can get free disk space by your provider.
Is it possible to split the site to several providers?

Joel · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

The number of mirrors i've set up is 2 on different servers:

Mirrors gone for now.

MartinG · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:45 am Post subject:

Thanks for all the feedback, comments, emails, etc. that I've received on this over the past few days. As a short to medium-term solution I've decided that - since Psion's own software (e.g. PsiWin, support files, manuals, etc.) is a) very large (and hence a bandwidth hog), and b) still available - I'll simply point to their existing download URLs instead of my own for the time being. There's little risk involved in doing this since I still have both local copies and also online copies of everything so should their website go offline, I can switch back very easily. Most users won't notice any difference - the web pages will stay the same for all intents and purposes.

Joel - thanks for the webspace/mirrors offer but I won't need them for the time being at least - please can you remove? Thanks!

Thanks,
Martin

Joel · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

All offline then. But if you ever need them on again, give me a shout.

Joel

MartinG · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks Joel - I appreciate the offer.

honkybear · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Flagstaff Arizona

This may not be very helpful. But with the demise of many Psion websites I find yours to be one of the better ones. I for one want your website to stick around apart from being able to swap information and to be able to find such rare gems as yours has. I was wondering asking the public who frequent your webiste for donations using Paypal. Hope this helps

MartinG · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

Thanks for the vote of confidence - I have no plans for Pscience5 to disappear any time soon. I've certainly thought about the use of a PayPal button and if necessary it's something I might do in the future. However, I've already been able to cut my bandwidth use by almost a third simply by linking to the Psion files that are still on Psion's site. No real change for people looking for stuff - and no real risk since I have local copies of everything that I can reinstate if necessary.

I'll see how it goes but I've certainly bought myself some breathing space for now.

Martin