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Subject: Re: CCC Search Engine problems

Author: Andrei Fortuna

Date: 10:11:01 08/27/03

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On August 27, 2003 at 12:54:21, Peter Kappler wrote:

>On August 27, 2003 at 12:02:37, Andrei Fortuna wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>As you might have noticed I have closed temporarily the search engine during the
>>last weeks. This is because it was consumming too much of my bandwidth while my
>>connection has a limited amount of bandwidth allocated each month.
>>
>>Right now I am looking for solutions on puting the search engine back online.
>>One solution would be to host it on other computer, I have asked in the past in
>>this group for help regarding this matter but got no reply. So this seems to be
>>not an option.
>
>Hi Andrei,
>
>I miss the search engine - I hope you can find somebody to host it.
>
>Perhaps ICD would be willing to do it?  Or maybe Bob could host it at UAB,
>alongside the EGTB files?  Clearly he has lots of bandwidth and disk space at
>his disposal.  :)
>

Hi Peter,

ICD could not host the search engine last time we discussed this because the
search engine needs the server to be kept running all the time, and the account
they had didn't allow that.

That is the big problem why no one is offering to host the engine : besides
bandwidth it needs aroun 50 MB of memory and takes a bit of CPU on the host
machine. Is is not cheap to hire a machine to host the engine because the
machines that allows you to run your own programs on them all the time (i.e. the
server part) are pretty much expensive.

Best Regards,
Andrei




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