April 03, 2004

silhouette3.JPG From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:

Announcement

As you know, we are running 5X our alloted bandwidth and the comment response has become atrocious. I have arranged to move Janegalt over to a server that will be"semi-dedicated" to us. Sometime this week our url will be pointed there, and you should see some serious improvements in response time. Among other things, we will be archiving 2001-2003 in a separate database and adding some other fine tuning. I am working with an old blogosphere friend on this and look forward to telling you about how great they are.

Also, I have reduced the "comment sunset" period to 7 days from 30. Posts over a week old won't accept comments.

Frankly, posting and rebuilding changes had become such a drag that we had all but stopped. I look forward to enjoying working with the blog again.

Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at April 3, 2004 03:06 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links
Comments

I kiss your feet.

Posted by: Barry O. on April 4, 2004 06:24 PM

Good luck.

I'm still not sure why your bandwidth consumption is so high. The site isn't THAT large. I wonder if comments eat up that much bandwidth?

Posted by: James Joyner on April 5, 2004 04:04 PM

Yes, they do. People who leave comments often sit there reloading and reloading to see if/when they get replies. Ask Charles Johnson (LGF) about comment bandwidth sometime and I'm sure you'll get an earful!
Also, the main page on this site is pretty large. When you add that to the number of hits, it does up the bandwidth a bit. Jeff Jarvis has a similar problem with the combination of a large front page and a lot of comments (and his bandwidth runs way higher than here -- move a decimal point to the right).

Posted by: Moving Company on April 5, 2004 07:34 PM

Movable Type has a plugin at mt-plugins.org called "Subscribe to Comments" that sends out an email when a comment is submitted for a particular post. Installing this plugin would allow commenters to leave the site, assured that they won't miss replies to their comments.

That, and maybe server-side caching of pages could reduce your bandwidth bills.

Posted by: Ryan Jensen on April 6, 2004 01:45 AM

test

Posted by: Kathy K on April 6, 2004 11:47 AM

You could probably just ban me. That would prevent a bunch of RSS queries ;)

Posted by: Robb on April 6, 2004 08:26 PM

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