Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[JohnMurga]

Hi,

I just received the following notification :

[MU]

I sent you a PM.
http://dotpups.de/murga/

Greets, Mark

[raffy]

The forum reached another record number of users today - this must be a pattern to expect this year. Already, enthusiasts are mentioning being timed out in the Forum.

I guess enthusiasts could localize the presence of Puppy and put up their own help sites, and offer service support for Puppy. This service support could earn its own revenue in the way of copyleft (see gnu.org). This Forum can focus on cutting-edge developments.

My $.02

[Ted Dog]

[url]puptrix.org[/url]

[kethd]

John,
Please keep making whatever changes you have to, to keep the cost reasonable for you -- moving any large downloads to elsewhere seems like a good idea.

I'm worried that you could have gotten a much bigger surprise, at $5/GB. Can you get them to auto-throttle daily at midnight, to keep within the 40GB/mon?

But if the issue is just being able to support as many users as want/need the Forum, I think we need to find the resources to fulfill that. Is there currently a hard limit on number of forum users at once? How often is it reached?

[Alucard_the_dex]

Im on often enough to notice theres usualy about 6-20 users online at a time to my knowledge. Im also not a large fan of the hard limit.

[JohnMurga]

I am monitoring the situation, I don't see limits as a viable option.

I am hoping that with the ISO's off the site the levels will become resonable.

Cheers
JohnM

[J_Rey]

I am receiving reports on IRC that this forum has been down (again), so I was wondering can we transfer (redirect) this forum to forum.puppylinux.org and combine our resources? John, Raffy, Barry, others?

[J_Rey]

[kethd]

In the short term, it sounds like we can get by, by just reducing any attachment/upload/download traffic on the Forum site.

In the long run, we need a robust Forum infrastructure that can handle growth to at least an order of magnitude more than the current usage. And we need portability/disentaglement/redundancy of the Forum from anything else. And maybe some of us will have to pledge a few dollars a month to support this? Well, we need to have access to the bandwidth/usage statistics to have a real discussion...

If I were a heavy user of the Forum, and used 1MB/day 20 days per month, that would be 20MB/month. We are a long way from having 1000 such users, so as long as the Forum traffic is kept tightly focused on text msg content, 20GB of traffic sounds within the range of a Benevolent Benefactor, so we don't have to get tangled up with money matters at the group level.

[BarryK]

Anyway, John, I'll pay for your surcharge, out of the donations and cd sales. ...as long as it doesn't get out of hand of course!

Let me know your PayPal email address. I can send you a donation every three months or so.

Note, servage.net accounts now have a 500G per month download limit ...that's about 16G per day!

[Ted puptrix Dog]

Well, I would like to help. Custom Pups are not on the rise just yet last count puptrix had used only 5% of its 1000G limit and thats the largest usage in a ten day period.

[deshlab]

[raffy]

Thanks, Ted. Actually, if your hosting has PHP and MySQL support, we can host sites of pup projects there. Servage.net offers large bandwidth quota, but it seems to be doing throttling. For example, after accessing a page with many images this morning, I could no longer access the other sites of puppylinux.org (or maybe it is my ISP doing the throttling, or servage.net is down?). The demo site I was trying to test is

http://puppylinux.org/members/demo

[Ted Dog]

I have done limited PHP and mySQL on my former host