That took days ... but free downloads ends in flames, again.

[Trotski]

 

 

Har har har !!! but you know I make a beautiful breakfast mate

6 hours ago, Nightshade/PR said:

And just when I thought it was safe to be one of those bloody unwashed colonial heathens...... There'll be no living with him now. 

 

 

[AcariaPlainum]

11 hours ago, Erik said:

Ask an intelligent question and I might feel compelled to answer. I have no idea what you mean by "hosting arrangements". We are a not a guest in someone's house we own the house from top to bottom, soup to nuts. 

Well honestly if that paywall stays then delete any mods i uploaded here

If you dont even want to be transparent about if you locally host or rent, if your local what setup are you running im talking hardware or even a cluster? What provider are you using if your renting?

How much storage is on the website total and how much do the mods take up? How many users total and how much bandwidth is used up on average and peak?

What about your reverse proxy setup? Also if your locally hosting what ISP plan and provider etc etc

Id be curious what your current setup costs and maybe if we can optimize 

 

[+Erik]

5 hours ago, AcariaPlainum said:

Well honestly if that paywall stays then delete any mods i uploaded here

If you dont even want to be transparent about if you locally host or rent, if your local what setup are you running im talking hardware or even a cluster? What provider are you using if your renting?

How much storage is on the website total and how much do the mods take up? How many users total and how much bandwidth is used up on average and peak?

What about your reverse proxy setup? Also if your locally hosting what ISP plan and provider etc etc

Id be curious what your current setup costs and maybe if we can optimize 

 

The two mods you uploaded, thank you I'll get those removed right away.

I have been more transparent about this topic, more than anyone I know, that statement alone is offensive. I have churned through countless posts in the past and disclosed our situation many times, your questions are not new. Our current port 80 accessible files reside on just over 2G of physical space, db and system files currently hovering around 1G. We are housed in a Class I data center in North America that sits on global fiber giving us access to push 1 gigabyte of data every second. We are a clustered running on Linux supported metal and current AMP distributions depending on the machine. Our MDU consists of Tier I and Tier II backbones so we don't use a provider we use many at the same time based on traffic peering and routes. Our bandwidth monthly aggregate average is 2.3 to 2.4 TB, peaks are 5TB and higher. The quick math is that's 1000GB = 1TB. Spikes and use don't translate very well into useful information. What about a reverse proxy setup? That's the most out of left field question ever. A reverse proxy would conceal our machines behind a network layer so they become invisible. That layer would destroy throughput and normal access to the site by users and is the absolute opposite of what we'd want. As I mentioned earlier you are not connecting to a Slackware box sitting in my basement. We have a fully established network of gear sitting on the edge of some of the world's most powerful ports directly connected to the global internet. Our cost's consist of three primary vectors when it relates to what we do. 1. Cabinet Space: we rent space in a hardware cabinet that is the physical space where our servers reside, they are sold in 1U units and we occupy 4 of them. 2. Bandwidth: we don't have a "plan" like a home user. We buy our bandwidth by the GB bucket which again doesn't relate well to use or throughput, it's a total aggregate of overhead, inbound, and outbound traffic. 3. Administrative Costs: This would include everything from software licensing fees, domain related fees, taxes and accounting, IP related fees, insurance, and the list goes on. What does it cost to run this place? Our base cost to sit idle is $30 per day add connectivity $40-$45 per day and those are averaged days, we often spike way above those numbers with daily costs getting into the $70 range. What are you going to optimize? Put this same setup on the cloud and you're looking at doubling our costs. On the cloud bandwidth is cheap but the disk space costs are not. Things are not getting cheaper anywhere, especially here America. We aren't buying a Telstra Unlimited Data Plan for $129 AUD per month mate, I hope that's apparent. This was a time sink, and it likely won't happen again. Be well.