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GustavoYz · Joined: 07 Jul 2010 Posts: 894 Location: .ar

DropQuest its over... Sad

ocpaul20 · Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 255 Location: PRC

Can't Hostgator be used? I realise it is not free, but you can have unlimited bandwidth and unlimited space and unlimited subdomains. I believe Babycroc hosting package is about 100-150 USdollars.

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 1126

russoodle · Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2011, 09:02 Post subject:

You're spot-on there, Q5sys. Don't forget the resources such as cpu and memory usage, too.

Because Eric hosted everything relating to Puppy, not just ISOs, his b/w usage averaged out to approx. 70GB PER DAY, IIRC, which is quite mind-boggling Shocked

Mine, thank goodness, is nowhere near that or i couldn't afford to keep it up! BUT, you just need a very popular or long-awaited release or two to drive the traffic into a feeding frenzy.

A few good examples of this are the releases of Hacao, the Vietnamese/English adaptation, which always attracts multitudes of downloaders, Legacy OS (TEENpup) and more recently, 10wt3ch's Puppy Studio, which was consistently eating up, at a guess, around 75% of bandwidth allowance all by its little self. In one month recently, my usage was 900+GB, mostly PS downloads. These examples all weighed in at over 200+MB too and it's amazing how it manages to add up.

I don't know what the answer is. I'd like to be able to host every bit of Puppy-paraphernalia there is going but i can't and realistically, i doubt that anyone else can, either. I mean those of us kennel-dwellers, not places like ibiblio or Internode.

Perhaps those who would like to host, or do so already, could work out a way of balancing the load between us, if that's possible.....i don't know..
Anyway, i'm willing to help if anyone has any suggestions.

My 0.2c for now.

p310don · Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2011, 09:55 Post subject:

I do like the decentralised nature of p2p. It helps minimise the risk of losing everything like what happened with puppylinux.ca. If enough users with decent broadband and decent quotas could seed torrents, for example, then a lot of major iso's could be shared.

Even things like the open/libreoffice sfs's and other large programs could be shared efficiently across a large number of seeders.

Then if the host site only had torrent files on it, it'd be a comparatively small bandwidth usage, as opposed to whole iso's.

Cust0dian · Posted: Mon 13 Jun 2011, 15:39 Post subject:

UPD:

Ge.tt got updated system of retrieving files, so slightly changed process of direct linking.
New idea of easy using BitTorrent protocol with help of BurnBit service.

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green_dome · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 204

Wuala has changed a few things.
-2 GB storage by default.
-Removed trading.

currently disabled, but in the works...
-100 GB file size limit

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Cust0dian · Posted: Fri 18 Nov 2011, 07:28 Post subject:

Thanks, green_dome. First post updated.

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green_dome · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 204

Wuala increased their included (free) storage to 5GB.
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Cust0dian · Posted: Fri 27 Apr 2012, 02:06 Post subject:

green_dome, thanks again, for countless time. First post updated.

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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8680 Location: qld

Google Drive is usable with Grive.. I made a Rox app for it and use it daily.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79836