[Coco] maltedmedia ftp request

[David Roper]

Perhaps packaging it up into "chunks" and releasing via torrent?

e.g. "Books", "Disks/Games", "OS9", etc.

- David

On 21 June 2012 23:53, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <dennis-ix at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> At 09:35 AM 6/21/2012, you wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:29 PM,  <rvanscherpe at penwin.net> wrote:
>> > I believe that the Rainbow directory is taking up the majority of this
>> > space.
>> > Have you considered removing the "big" versions for now and just leaving
>> > the smaller files with maybe a text file saying that larger ones are
>> > available
>> > on DVD?
>>
>> Archive.org hosts a complete collection of Rainbow scans as well, so
>> we can relieve some of the bandwidth issues by grabbing these from
>> there instead. Thanks to  Derek for recently sharing the link:
>> http://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine.
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>
> I certainly appreciate all these positive suggestions.
>
> One of the reasons my CoCo storage 'dump' has a bandwidth problem is that
> there are 80+GB of documents available in one place and folks don't have to
> search here & there. And I have the space for more. I'm interested in
> convenience for people interested in CoCo materials.
>
> The solution I'm asking for is how to reduce demand for the entire archive
> AT ONCE. Since throttling or IP address connection limits would interfere
> with my (paying) clients' use of the rest of the FTP site, I'd be reluctant
> to do that.
>
> So if folks on this list will go easy on the mass downloads, that will help.
> I've put in a robots.txt file which should block respectful search bots.
>
> That just leaves the anonymous bandwidth suckers, such as an anonymous user
> in Uruguay who downloaded the entire 81GB on Tuesday, or "psergm at gmail.com"
> who did the same. Blocking their IPs after the fact is useless, and
> constantly monitoring usage would be more work for me.
>
> I can, however, password-protect the site and make the username/password
> available as part of this list's info page. Or something else that will not
> create more work and keep the balance tipped below my monthly 500GB cap.
> Those are the kinds of suggestions that will balance keeping all the content
> and balancing the use.
>
> Dennis
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