Sat 13 Nov 2004
Hit the limit
Posted by assorted under Uncategorized
[12] Comments
We’ve reached out bandwidth limit for this month. The new mixes, served at mixes.b00mb0x.org, will be down for 7 days, that’s when our billing cycle flips and restarts.
Feel free to donate for our bandwidth. It goes right to our hosting company. Just go to mixes.b00mb0x.org or to the donate link to the left to do it.
Older mixes, served on the klunky slowish server, are still available. And we are hosting Pass the Parcel on a different server, so that can keep going.
Mixes have been unthrottled thx to a donation. Am I supposed to keep who anonymous? Fuck, I’ve no clue the etiquette of begging.
Etiquette?
That’s for the folks at GYBO ain’t it? ;0)
I’m still impressed that you could spell “etiquette”!
:oD
Have u thought of using Bit Torrent to ease the squeeze on your server? free software that shares the bandwidth strain between those downloading …
http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent
just a thought… cheers for your efforts
also check this –
food for thought …. esp on big mixes eh?
http://www.downhillbattle.org/labs/battletorrent
Good thinking – I’ll make torrents of the contents of my boombox folder when I get a chance – I don’t have much of the new stuff but I have a lot of the older stuff.
Although if boombox would prefer to keep stats on how many downloads etc – thats fair enough ……….
And Condoleezza Rice is America’s new Secretary of State ………
“US policy, she is said to have remarked, should be “to punish France, ignore Germany and forgive Russia.”
the world is headed to WW3 against “old Europe”!! Improbable ? who would have thought the world would be in the state it is, 4 years ago ?
As the ancient chinese curse goes : “may you live in interesting times”
I’m a bit drunk writing all this, by the way in case you haven’t copped on ……………… but I think the sentiments are valid.
bittorrent is a very interesting solution that will probably be quite necassary as the site gets more popular (which it will, the site has only become more popular as each month has gotten on).
protos, your brother reckons you might be the guy to talk to about installing a rating script that takes votes out of 5 points and spits out an average… is it possible?
ooh a rating script…that sounds neato.
i give it 2 spines up
Give me more details. Shouldn’t be that hard ………
Wow. How much does the bbox server (in currency) need to stay alive, naz?
(ps deckaide@hotmail.com – i want members posting access rights approval thingie please please bbox is heaven )
its about 400 bucks a year outside of extra bandwidth charges, we got 60 bucks towards extra bandwidth (thanks!) which should see us through the ends of a couple of months – hopefully the cost of bandwidth will fall again soon, as it has in the past, and we’ll get more bang for our buck..
protos: the basic thing i was thinking about was a drop down menu, with 0-5 ratings and a submit button. It would need to collate all the votes for a particular mix entry number (visible by clicking the timestamp) and spit out the average rating
advanced features would be setting a cookie so each browser can only vote once, or some code that prevents duplicate ratings on a single mix from one i.p
I’ve been looking for a movable type plugin that would take care of it for us, but haven’t had any luck. Let me know what you think …