Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 10:22:23 08/27/03
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On August 27, 2003 at 13:11:01, Andrei Fortuna wrote: >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 I'd be willing to throw a little money into a pool to buy a Duron 900MHZ or some such if Bob would host it. The bandwidth should be peanuts compared to his FTP. anthony
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