Also remember the server has to handle not only Solo2 hits, but all SCCA
hits, and
all hits to whatever other sites are hosted there. I don't know, and
I don't want to have to find out.
Jerry
Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
rouler!
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Merritt <cmerritt@ati.com>
To: Bay_Area_Autocross_List <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 9:57 AM
Subject: RE: Web Results Notification
> > > Hey! watch out! You get everybody pinging the site every
> > > few minutes, you'll swamp the server, or cost SCCA more money for
> > > a higher level of service.
>
> Yeah, I know, if done improperly (I.E. no delay between retries) it could
> easily swamp both our connections. However, I'm targeting something in
the
> range of one ping every 5 minutes or so, which only translates to 288 hits
a
> day, and only on the days when we are expecting imminent results being
> posted. Your Apache server can handle at least 288 hits at every few
> _seconds_, so I really doubt I'll even be a blip on your statistics
reports.
> However, if there does prove to be ANY problems please let me know ASAP
and
> I'll kill the bot.
>
> As far as everybody pinging your site, I would hope that wouldn't happen.
> That's the whole reason I'm setting my bot up to send an announcement
email
> to a public email list people can subscribe to, so it only takes one bot
and
> a few pings to notify a bunch of people.
>
> > > This time there is a delay because our Pat is under the weather.
> > > Keep yer shirt on!
>
> ARG!!! Post-event/pre-results life in an indexed class is SO stressful...
>
> =)
>
> -Carl
>
>
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