Author Topic: Excessive bandwidth usage by music downloads (Read 7053 times)

DJ Omnimaga · « **on:** October 18, 2007, 08:19:00 pm »

On a monthly basis, Omnimaga use between 1 GB and 5 GB of bandwidth per month on United-TI server. However, so far this month it used 14, and it is only half of the month. If you look carefully in the http://nosolution.net/stats/awstats.omnimaga.unitedti.org.html it almost all comes from mp3 files. This is the first time that more than 1 GB of download comes from music files. Since we suspected people from going directly through the music folder on United-TI server to download our music we decided to block direct access to it. This means you now have to go through the Omnimaga download section to access the files if you don't remember their URLs.

Also the entire music download section of the website has been disabled for anonymous users and validating members, meaning you now need to register and make your two validation posts in the appropriate topic to access it again.

Since anyone can still access the mp3 files directly even as guest when they know the URLs by heart or bookmarked them we would appreciate if you saved the files on your PC to listen to them instead of listening to them remotely. So when downloading a file please right-click and save as to listen to it instead of keeping redownloading it over and over, eating all United-TI Bandwidth.

If too much bandwidth is used this could cause problems to United-TI administrator and even United-TI and all hosted sites as well and we would have to remove all music files avaliable here.

Thank you for understanding.

Insanity · « **Reply #1 on:** October 19, 2007, 12:27:00 am »

Maybe you could torrent them on Demonoid or something?
I could give you an invite code...

rivereye · « **Reply #2 on:** October 19, 2007, 12:58:00 am »

or, we could just zip all the files, you have to download a zip file. It will not save space, but it will make all the songs downloaded before you can play them.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #3 on:** October 19, 2007, 01:44:00 am »

@Randomist: Demonoid has been blocked in Canada:

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We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and We need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.

I can still access the torrents from elsewhere though it seems, but this means I cannot start a new torrent here anymore. Torrents aren't much reliable if somehow people stop downloading/uploading one of the songs anymore anyway.

I think the zip files may be the best solution for this but it will involve modifying stuff.
If somehow I discover that bandwidth is still used as much when I check the stats this evening I will take down all files from the site until I finish zipping them.

Netham45 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 19, 2007, 07:34:00 am »

*Netham45

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #5 on:** October 19, 2007, 09:29:00 am »

Well, actually at one point i was planning to offer mirror downloads to your server as well for song since I saw that huge bump in bandwidth usage

nitacku · « **Reply #6 on:** October 19, 2007, 10:04:00 am »

I suppose I should stop listening to so many songs

You'll have to put a limit on me

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #7 on:** October 19, 2007, 10:37:00 am »

Well you don't have to stop listening. As I said, just right-click and save as then listen on the pc, don't reload the file all the time to listen to it again and again

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #8 on:** October 19, 2007, 01:58:00 pm »

I can alerady see a big difference so far even thought there is still 3 hours remaining in that day:
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Day   Number of visits   Pages   Hits   Bandwidth
01 Oct 2007   76   357   12360   465.62 MB
02 Oct 2007   60   156   11992   275.21 MB
03 Oct 2007   75   210   10625   282.10 MB
04 Oct 2007   78   153   6804   204.41 MB
05 Oct 2007   413   629   10593   1.36 GB
06 Oct 2007   567   784   9060   1.58 GB
07 Oct 2007   403   615   8638   1.12 GB
08 Oct 2007   420   654   6418   1.13 GB
09 Oct 2007   455   870   10064   1.57 GB
10 Oct 2007   438   758   14619   1.33 GB
11 Oct 2007   491   825   12910   1.63 GB
12 Oct 2007   494   847   11086   1.81 GB
13 Oct 2007   208   362   9799   522.00 MB
14 Oct 2007   120   241   9659   295.28 MB
15 Oct 2007   107   233   12800   306.91 MB
16 Oct 2007   87   248   8082   290.05 MB
17 Oct 2007   104   294   10897   251.23 MB
18 Oct 2007   104   286   10640   288.56 MB
19 Oct 2007   31   123   4497   73.03 MB
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Radical Pi · « **Reply #9 on:** October 19, 2007, 02:45:00 pm »

I think it was probably the hundreds of spambots that have been coming here recently, opening the mp3s. How else does Techno Strike get 3000 views?

Netham45 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 19, 2007, 03:10:00 pm »

well, unless you use 2TB/mo, I don't really care how much you put on my webserver

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #11 on:** October 19, 2007, 04:01:00 pm »

Does spambots really can open mp3 files? If it is the case then I know why we got so much bandwith usage this month. Has anyone noticed the increasing amount of guests and validating users at once on the board sometimes? O_O

Fryedsoft · « **Reply #12 on:** October 19, 2007, 06:02:00 pm »

Why not just http://www.coralcdn.org/ the links? It should knock the bandwidth usage down, but it may not be a sure bet since it caches in 24 hour intervals, and shorter when the file is larger.

Just make sure there in a different location than they were originally so they don't direct download the original files from another site that may have linked the old files.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #13 on:** October 19, 2007, 06:34:00 pm »

OMG IT'S FRYEDSOFT!!!! It has been nearly one year since I last saw you O_O

, nice to see you again

. Do you still do calc related stuff?

This link looks interesting, I will check more into this later. I want all my mirrors to have good uptime tho, I don't want to have to reupload files to them over and over every weeks or so like with file hosts

Liazon · « **Reply #14 on:** October 20, 2007, 12:49:00 am »

Netham, that's a lot of bandwidth.

Welcome back Fryedsoft!

Author Topic: Excessive bandwidth usage by music downloads (Read 7053 times)

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