Re: Improving gweather

[Julien MOUTTE <jmoutte electronic-group com>]

If you are interested i can easily provide a virtual host to host that file with free bandwidth...

cheers

dolphy

On 07 Mar 2003 12:01:01 -0500
Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:36, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Havoc Pennington">
> > 
> > > I'd tend to suggest that we point the applet at an URL we control (say
> > > weather.gnome.org) and have it expect the XML format.
> > 
> > > In any case if we have the applet looking at an URL/format we control we
> > > can always fix it.
> > 
> > It also means that we (and when I say "we" I mean "GNOME's kind web hosting
> > sponsor, Red Hat") have to fork out the bandwidth fees... Might be an
> > interesting way to find out how many users we have, though. ;-)
> 
> I suspect that an extra level of indirection:
> 
>  The weather applet connects to the server and asks for an URL 
>  to connect to when started. 
> 
>  All future attempts go to the redirected URL for some period
>  of time (or until failure)
> 
> Would be useful to give us flexibility in the future. 
> Remember, the code we ship now will be in use for _years_.
> 
> I'm not _too_ worried about bandwidth as long as the weather
> applet isn't on the panel by default and has a sane update
> period by default and prevents the user from setting an 
> insane period. (I want weather updates once a second!)
> 
>  100,000 users reading 1k every 15 minutes 
> 
> is about 900kbit which won't kill gnome.org, though it would
> hurt. (We will likely be switching to a flat 10mbit sometime 
> soon. Right now we have access to 10mbit but pay expensive 
> rates if it goes over 2mbit.)
> 
> But if we had redirection we could start simple, and then
> if we do get 100,000 people with the weather applet on their
> panel, we can easily deal with the problem.
> 
> Regards,
>                                        Owen
> 
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