An Experiment

Korn · Admin Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Karma :

Anybody have hosting they wouldn't mind donating for a short experiment? I want to try and split the images from the scripts on BCF, and have the actual pages served as normal with the images coming from one of several random other servers. I want to run a trial on this to see if it can yield any performance gains and how much bandwidth would be required.

All you would need to do is put a set of static images online in their own directory structure. Avatars, attachments and anything dynamic would still be served off here, and if we managed enough mirrors the bandwidth hit should be minor (the images in question are all small and account for less than 5% of BCF's bandwidth, but a lot of requests).

Any volunteers? Thinking

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Susi · Whitton Girl Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Karma :

Go on then, I have a hosting account and some URL that I've never got round to using. One of those money making waster projects that didn't turn into anything. It's even one of those unlimited bandwidth plans. Just message me and I'll give you the details.
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Kickstart@Work · Scooby Slapper Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Karma :

Hi

And me. I am paying for around 40gb of bandwidth but only using 2~3 so it should be OK.

Can only upload them tonight though.

All the best

Keith
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Korn · Admin Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Karma :

The attached zipfile contains all the images. All that's needed is for them to be accessible via URL, i.e:

https://www.something.com/bcf_mirror/
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McJamweasel · BCF Junkie Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Karma :

https://www.aqub86.dsl.pipex.com/bcf_mirror
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Danny · Ask Me About Stoppie School Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Karma :

https://www.asdz68.dsl.pipex.com/bcf_mirror/bcf/

Don't know if I uploaded it exactly how you wanted, I'm useless with this internet stuff. Embarassed

Korn · Admin Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Karma :

Yeah you have, you can check by adding "templates/standard/images/logo_phpBB.gif" to the end of your url and seeing if it bring up the logo.
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Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

https://www.skunkworks.webaxxs.net/bcf_mirror/bcf/

Dr Nick · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Karma :

https://the-npf.com/bcf_mirror/

https://the-npf.com/bcf_mirror/bcf/templates/standard/images/logo_phpBB.gif
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G1_ · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 May 2002 Karma :

If it's only for a short while then no porblem:

https://www.daviesfam.org:81/bcf_mirror/

carvell · Scuttler Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Karma :

Ah hell - here's another!

https://www.burningimage.net/bcf_mirror/bcf/
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McJamweasel · BCF Junkie Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Karma :

Wow. More mirrors than a ..er...hall of mirrors? Meh, that'll do.
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Korn · Admin Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Karma :

There's 9 up now, seems to be working well on my test version of BCF. One more and we'll make it live and see what happens.
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Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

OK, here's another.

https://www.evilbendy.co.uk/bcf_mirror/bcf

Just uploading now.

andrew · Mister Road Rage Joined: 03 Feb 2002 Karma :

Half the images on the site are broken, someones hosting isn't working very well.

Korn · Admin Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Karma :

Ok, I've turned it on. Let's see what happens.
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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

https://www.okas.co.uk/bcf/

Smile

McJamweasel · BCF Junkie Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Karma :

The pipex mirrored images are buggering up so I suggest you remove them.
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The BeefMeister · Crazy Courier Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Karma :

I was then going to say is this something to do with lots of icons and small images disappearing and not being found.
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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

Another mirror site for you:-

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/bcf_mirror/

All the best

Keith
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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi Korn

Noticed something tonight. Using Opera it gives you a running total of how many images it has downloaded so far, out of a total. Noticed one thread that listed 238 images, and quite a few listing over 200. It was normally around 50, with 70ish at a push.

My suspicion is that you have randomised the source of these images and we are now downloading the same image from several different sources each time we load a page.

All the best

Keith
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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

It is indeed. Just looked to see where the "email" buttons were coming from for your post, and the post above it, and one is from okas.co.uk and one is from evilbendy.co.uk Neutral

Korn · Admin Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Karma :

Oops, there should have been only 1 source per image. Anyway, I don't think it helped any (did it?) so I've turned it off.
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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

I think it probably would have helped a touch if each copy of the same image had the same source. Should have given your server an easier time.

Down side was that on a 56k modem it took substantially longer to load a page. 100 images takes a while even if they are only 1kb a piece.

All the best

Keith
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