Author: Andrei Fortuna
Date: 10:35:47 08/27/03
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On August 27, 2003 at 13:22:23, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >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. If Mr Hyatt agrees to host it and enough volunteers buy money for such a computer I have nothing against this idea. In fact all you need is a computer with 128 MB of memory and 1 GB of free space for the archive and the search index and if the processor has at least 133 Mhz it is perfect for the job (of course faster the processor faster the search results). Andrei
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