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� 10,000 Downloads | Main | Dark Days (Selfishly) �Unfortunately, we just discovered that the number of downloads of this book -- nearly 10,000 -- could wind up costing literally thousands of dollars. Literally. We're using a colocation service that charges based on the 9th busiest hour in a month and charges thousands of dollars for the level of usage we might have achieved. We had no idea it was that high. This is, of course, all my fault.
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My team and I build some pretty solid P2P CDN software. You "swoosh" your links, (prepend text to your URLs), and people will then get data from the peers closest to them (and faster data rates), but they do it totally transparently, getting the same user experience as before (in the browser, media player, doesn't matter).
First time user clicks on your swooshed link and if they don't have software, they are prompted with web page to install networking software through ActiveX control. After that they just surf your site the same way they're used to.
No ad-ware, no spy-ware, no crazy bundling. In case you're wondering about us, who we are, we are the guys/founders who built Scour.net, Scour exchange, etc. Let me know if you might be interested.
Posted by: Travis Kalanick at May 2, 2003 5:23 PM
If you are paying on the 95% then 24 hours at the higher bandwidth will not necessarily make the bill extremely high. 5% of a month is 31 hours.
I have a similar 100 meg burstable connection at UUNet and pay about $700 a month per meg. So 20 megabit would = $14,000.
Of course it is prudent for someone with a 100 meg burstable connection to install hardware and/or software to make sure you don't go faster than you can afford.
Posted by: anon at March 26, 2003 11:02 PM
You could also ask ibiblio.org to host it for you.
Posted by: Ryan at March 21, 2003 8:19 PM
I'm sure the Internet Archive would be happy to host the book. They've got tons of bandwidth for these things.
If not, I'll host it.
Posted by: Aaron Swartz at March 21, 2003 11:18 AM
I tossed this idea to Doc, wherein I saw the problem first, but he's piled up, I think.
Why don't you ask the people who've downloaded it to put it up on Gnutella-net. That would distribute the bandwidth and still serve your purpose.
It's almost exactly what G-net is for, actually. Make a great test case, too. You just wouldn't be able to get stats, unless the PDF phones home.
-- j
Posted by: Jay Ashworth at March 21, 2003 10:05 AM
Glenn, I'm good for twenty bucks. Sorry I can't send you more but you know how much we freelancers make. I didn't even download a book so maybe those folks who did will cough up a little cash, not because they have to but because It's The Right Thing To Do.
love,
db
Posted by: Deborah Branscum at March 21, 2003 9:01 AM
It's all about generosity. I'm hoping that a few thousand kind souls would contribute a buck to help with this dire situation. But I'm on the hook regardless...
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at March 20, 2003 3:48 PM
Damn. Hope you can work something out, and sorry for helping to overload you!
Posted by: Mike D at March 20, 2003 1:09 PM
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