Well, Carl,
Why would you want to post a separate notification of the
results being available? As I said I post one as soon as the
results go out.
Why would anyone want to wait for your notification if they
don't trust me? They'd want to set up their own bots, and
maybe they won't be quite so good at programming.
There could be a risk to our site, I believe.
Question: What's the point?
Also, now that I know about your strategy, I won't post any more
results until they are complete, checked, and OK'd by Pat.
In addition, I'll send the notification 10 minutes before I ftp the
results to the site.
It's a big pain in the neck for me. But do what you want.
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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