This is a public service announcement.

My Host provider (1and1) has in formed me that traffic on ko4bb.com has
consistently and grossly exceeded the unlimited bandwidth allocation
specified by contract(!!!) They have also turned off my service a few times
this month to emphasize the message. I have been a customer for about 10
years but apparently nowadays that does not count for much.

This must be the new math, 2TB/month > infinite, or maybe unlimited is not
the same as infinite...

It turns out that many providers have responded the same way when asked if
2TB/month was less than the unlimited promise of shared hosting. Therefore
I have to upgrade to a better class of service.

As expected, there is a big price gap between services that offer unlimited
bandwidth (they are all cheap shared hosts) and those that offer "only"
2TB/month (typically virtual private systems or managed servers). The cost
goes up by a factor of about 10 or more.

I have identified a new service provider: MyHosting.com and I am in the
process of migrating everything, including the 65GB or so of manuals and
related files (and the other 60GB of other stuff).

The new service is now a Virtual Private Server, as opposed to a shared
host. That means I have my own private virtual machine and full access to
the OS, which is a blessing and a curse, as I can do anything I want
(pretty much) but I have to do everything else too myself (like software
maintenance). The price has gone up significantly, but MyHosting.com has a
nice setup where you can pretty much rent as much CPU/memory/hard drive and
bandwidth as you need, and it is easy to change on the fly.

I am in the process of setting up the new server. I will make an
announcement when it is online, probably in a couple of weeks. There may be
a short interruption while the DNS caches are flushed. Be assured that none
of the manuals are lost, but there were a large number of manuals uploaded
this month and they are going to be in temporary storage (unsorted in the
Stuff Not Sorted folder) for a little while.

Also, I will ask you to postpone making large uploads until I have moved to
the new server. I will turn off uploads a few days before the switch.

I may have to turn off downloads on the current site if 1and1 gives me too
much of a hard time. Please be patient.

Thank you for your patience and your support.

Didier KO4BB

All,

There’s an apache plugin that allows you to get the statistics from cloudflare on each hit. Take a look at mod_cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/resources-downloads)

I use it, works great. AND, they just announced yesterday that they have free SSL now. =)

I would imagine with your site, cloudflare will greatly reduce your bandwidth, and prevent other abusive behavior (like hotlinking). =)

Let us know!

-Ryan Stasel

On Sep 30, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Paul Alfille <paul.alfille@gmail.commailto:paul.alfille@gmail.com> wrote:

Looking at Cloudflare's website, they claim they will collect usage
statistics for you.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Didier Juges <shalimr9@gmail.commailto:shalimr9@gmail.com> wrote:

I have looked at Cloudflare and as soon as my domain is transferred, I will
get the free account.
It was already recommended by another user last week. Thanks!

The only issue is that my server will not see that traffic, which will
prevent me from having reliable statistics, but one cannot have
everything....

Didier KO4BB

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Ryan Stasel <rstasel@uoregon.edumailto:rstasel@uoregon.edu> wrote:

Didier,

I would look into just putting something like Cloudflare infront of
KO4BB... this should cache all your content relatively well, and greatly
reduce the load on your provider.

They have a free tier that works quite well, and even their paid tiers
are
much cheaper than an ISP that would work for that kind of bandwidth (I
had
no idea it was so high, but it is a great resource).

Thoughts?

-Ryan Stasel

On Sep 28, 2014, at 11:18 , Didier Juges <shalimr9@gmail.commailto:shalimr9@gmail.com> wrote:

Francesco,

Thanks for the offer. I have been a Linux user since Slackware with the
1.0.9 kernel. I know just enough to be really dangerous to myself,
hopefully not to others... I may call on you on occasion. The new
server
runs on CentOS v6, not sure if there are any plans to upgrade to v7.
Recently, my experience has been with Ubuntu and I would have preferred
staying with a Debian based distro for the familiarity, but MyHosting
did
not offer one.

Poul,

Thanks for the good words. Those words are what keeps me going at this
:)

Didier KO4BB

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Francesco Messineo <
francesco.messineo@gmail.commailto:francesco.messineo@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Didier Juges <shalimr9@gmail.commailto:shalimr9@gmail.com>
wrote:

Thank you for your patience and your support.

thank to you for your service!
I'm a *nix system administrator since 20 years (well, my job would
turn 20 next year actually). So if you ever need any support, just
ask.

Frank

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