

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross J. Reedstrom [mailto:reedstrm@rice.edu] 
> Sent: 13 January 2003 15:16
> To: Vince Vielhaber
> Cc: Dan Langille; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL site, put up or shut up?
> 
> 
> And there was a statement upthread from someone (Marc?) 
> indicating that the bandwidth was down in the noise for them 
> (as an ISP).

I think that was Vince talking about 1 mirror. The January stats to date
(bear in mind it didn't go live until the 4/5th Jan), for the Portal and
idocs *only* (ie, not including gborg, techdocs, developer, user-lounge,
archives, fts, pgadmin, odbc, jdbc or ftp) are:

Total Hits 1339547 
Total Files 1064536 
Total Pages 324346 
Total Visits 58178 
Total KBytes 2712883

In other words, 2.7Gb in 8/9 days.

I'm not sure I'd call that noise :-)

Regards, Dave.

Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:32:08 -0000
"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Re: PostgreSQL site, put up or shut up?
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dave Page wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ross J. Reedstrom [mailto:reedstrm@rice.edu]
> > Sent: 13 January 2003 15:16
> > To: Vince Vielhaber
> > Cc: Dan Langille; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL site, put up or shut up?
> >
> >
> > And there was a statement upthread from someone (Marc?)
> > indicating that the bandwidth was down in the noise for them
> > (as an ISP).
>
> I think that was Vince talking about 1 mirror. The January stats to date
> (bear in mind it didn't go live until the 4/5th Jan), for the Portal and
> idocs *only* (ie, not including gborg, techdocs, developer, user-lounge,
> archives, fts, pgadmin, odbc, jdbc or ftp) are:
>
> Total Hits 1339547
> Total Files 1064536
> Total Pages 324346
> Total Visits 58178
> Total KBytes 2712883
>
> In other words, 2.7Gb in 8/9 days.
>
> I'm not sure I'd call that noise :-)

It's irrelevant.  The portal and idocs aren't being mirrored and the
question was about mirrors.

Vince.
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Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:42:16 -0500 (EST)
Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Re: PostgreSQL site, put up or shut up?

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> Go back and reread the end of it.  The first part was about the ads,
> the second was about mirrors.

Sorry for the confusion: Dave is right, I just asked the question wrong. 
I am not really concerned about the mirrors, but how much traffic the 
main portal endures, and if that number justifies the putting of 
advertisements on the site.

The answer to the first appears to be about 320 MB per day, or about 
9 gigs per month. Not too shabby, but not too bad either. To be 
totally fair, we should also factor in all the other sites (subdomains) 
that hub.org is providing.

I see the big questions as:

What prompted the redesign to put the ads on every page of the site, 
when before they were only on the opening "flags" page?


How much monthly revenue do the ads bring in, and can we (the community) 
provide an alternative to this income, perhaps via direct contributions?


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Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:40:32 -0000
greg@turnstep.com
Re: PostgreSQL site, put up or shut up?