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why the 1999 catalog images have moved
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Tue, 8 Dec 1998 07:16:45 GMT
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Kevin Loch has graciously agreed to host the JPEG files for the 1999
catalog. Image links at
http://www.lugnet.com/1999/
have been updated to point to the new directories on Kevin's server
www.kl.net, so this should be a mostly-transparent changepoint. The JPEGs
do still exist at the old location for backward compatibility with cached
HTML pages and for future reactiviation someday, but it's best if you try to
access them on Kevin's server because he's set up for unlimited bandwidth on
a dedicated T1 line.
Though the lugnet.com server is connected to an extremely fast Internet
backbone and is capable of spitting out many Gigabytes of data per hour,
bandwidth above a certain level comes at a hefty price under the current
payment plan. Hosting thousands of small JPEG images such as the ones in
the Pause/Lugnet reference guide or in the Fibblesnork LEGO Guide is no
problem, however, since these only add up to a few hundred Megabytes of data
transfers a day and remain relatively constant from one day to the next.
Serving out zillions of custom-generated HTML pages is also no problem since
these typically average only 10Kb and 1/10 to 1/5 second of CPU time.
Anyway, I sure didn't expect there to be 2000 people per day accessing these
1999 catalog images -- pushing the bandwidth out of the hundreds-of-
Megabytes-per-day range and into the Gigabytes-per-day range. And still
no mention of it in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc, which may drive things even
higher.
So thank Kevin, and if you're curious about the levels of bandwidth required
for these 1999 catalog images, here's a report showing the number of bytes
served for each hour since they went up:
05/Dec/1998:15 33,304,846 bytes
05/Dec/1998:16 33,630,415 bytes
05/Dec/1998:17 108,988,439 bytes
05/Dec/1998:18 106,963,101 bytes
05/Dec/1998:19 119,253,460 bytes
05/Dec/1998:20 137,691,088 bytes
05/Dec/1998:21 152,989,190 bytes
05/Dec/1998:22 173,909,026 bytes
05/Dec/1998:23 101,954,706 bytes
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05/Dec/1998 968,684,271 bytes
06/Dec/1998:00 126,142,210 bytes
06/Dec/1998:01 86,882,915 bytes
06/Dec/1998:02 50,541,650 bytes
06/Dec/1998:03 27,575,988 bytes
06/Dec/1998:04 35,603,686 bytes
06/Dec/1998:05 28,093,864 bytes
06/Dec/1998:06 23,975,785 bytes
06/Dec/1998:07 25,076,653 bytes
06/Dec/1998:08 24,835,215 bytes
06/Dec/1998:09 67,773,803 bytes
06/Dec/1998:10 51,227,753 bytes
06/Dec/1998:11 68,373,830 bytes
06/Dec/1998:12 63,216,436 bytes
06/Dec/1998:13 89,672,801 bytes
06/Dec/1998:14 61,065,479 bytes
06/Dec/1998:15 93,040,086 bytes
06/Dec/1998:16 113,672,904 bytes
06/Dec/1998:17 71,443,399 bytes
06/Dec/1998:18 90,081,238 bytes
06/Dec/1998:19 69,362,413 bytes
06/Dec/1998:20 85,094,121 bytes
06/Dec/1998:21 89,560,609 bytes
06/Dec/1998:22 109,852,220 bytes
06/Dec/1998:23 122,314,048 bytes
-------------- -------------------
06/Dec/1998 1,674,479,106 bytes
07/Dec/1998:00 70,538,655 bytes
07/Dec/1998:01 60,055,973 bytes
07/Dec/1998:02 27,889,324 bytes
07/Dec/1998:03 54,267,972 bytes
07/Dec/1998:04 35,099,429 bytes
07/Dec/1998:05 50,773,150 bytes
07/Dec/1998:06 45,961,658 bytes
07/Dec/1998:07 161,868,579 bytes
07/Dec/1998:08 116,308,539 bytes
07/Dec/1998:09 195,027,779 bytes
07/Dec/1998:10 228,334,519 bytes
07/Dec/1998:11 189,310,221 bytes
07/Dec/1998:12 168,280,506 bytes
07/Dec/1998:13 189,903,321 bytes
07/Dec/1998:14 121,892,170 bytes
07/Dec/1998:15 95,125,435 bytes
07/Dec/1998:16 133,878,910 bytes
07/Dec/1998:17 81,367,814 bytes
07/Dec/1998:18 95,626,285 bytes
07/Dec/1998:19 91,949,449 bytes
07/Dec/1998:20 59,403,506 bytes
07/Dec/1998:21 58,439,448 bytes
07/Dec/1998:22 42,339,492 bytes
07/Dec/1998:23 67,957,096 bytes
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07/Dec/1998 2,441,599,230 bytes
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2.375 days 5,084,762,607 bytes
To me, this is just an insanely huge amount of bandwidth (I'm used to
dealing with smaller files that add up differently). To Kevin, who's used
to dealing with large image files, it's probably a walk on the beach. :)
Someday this level of bandwidth won't pose a problem for lugnet.com. I look
forward to the day when it's affordable to serve up 10 Gigabyte/hour of
data. :)
Again, send your thanks to Kevin for so graciously hosting this data,
because during peak hours these images seem to be chewing up about 25% of a
T1 line.
--Todd
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: why the 1999 catalog images have moved
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| I would say you ought to be forwarding all this info to the people at LEGO, whatever contacts you have there. You are essentially providing them with free advertising, and with this info in such hight demand, they'd have to be fools not to consider (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: why the 1999 catalog images have moved
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| Also sprach Todd Lehman: : Anyway, I sure didn't expect there to be 2000 people per day accessing these : 1999 catalog images -- pushing the bandwidth out of the hundreds-of- : Megabytes-per-day range and into the Gigabytes-per-day range. And still (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: why the 1999 catalog images have moved
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message <366cc340.28054619@l...et.com>... : :Kevin Loch has graciously agreed to host the JPEG files for the 1999 :catalog. Image links at : : (URL) been updated to point to the new directories on Kevin's server :www.kl.net, so (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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