MGR: Graphics moved

I've been wondering why our outbound bandwidth seems to be bumping against
the limits lately, so I've been running various utilities against our web
logs.

One thing I discovered was about a gig of transfers from a single file...
somebody decided it would be neato to link to a monster graphics file one
of the games has.

Now, there's not much gamemasters can do about that sort of thing (though
if it becomes widespread, I'll put an interceptor in there that refuses to
serve graphics to offsite pages... it'll save bandwidth at the cost of
system load), but I'd like everybody to remember that we're primarily a
message server, not a web hosting service.  We've got plenty of drive
space (well, actually it's all on the new server right now) but bandwidth
is a big choke point for us here.  Link to large graphics rather than
having them automatically displayed as part of a page, put stuff offsite
if you have space elsewhere, and so on.

(I don't even need to say anything about making sure you have the rights
to publish any graphics you're using, right?)

When the time comes, we'll buy a bigger pipe, but bandwidth is expensive
in flyover country (and we'd really, really rather not colo), so we want
to put it off as long as possible.

In this case, I just took the simple step of renaming the linked-to file,
and changing the local page to point to the new name.  So
/realms/images/silverwest.jpg is now /realms/images/silverwest2.jpg.  The
Phoenyx page that points to it has been changed accordingly, so don't
stomp on those changes if you re-upload that page, MJ...

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MGR: Graphics moved

Hmmmm, I wonder who's linking to that map.   I can reduce the size of 
the file if you'd like since it was originally put up for the players to 
get aquainted with the region but I doubt anyone in the game has been 
using it on a regular basis;.

MJ


Karen J. Cravens wrote:

>In this case, I just took the simple step of renaming the linked-to file,
>and changing the local page to point to the new name.  So
>/realms/images/silverwest.jpg is now /realms/images/silverwest2.jpg.  The
>Phoenyx page that points to it has been changed accordingly, so don't
>stomp on those changes if you re-upload that page, MJ...
>
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>Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
>
>
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MGR: Graphics moved

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, MJ Harnish wrote:

MH>Hmmmm, I wonder who's linking to that map.   I can reduce the size of
MH>the file if you'd like since it was originally put up for the players to
MH>get aquainted with the region but I doubt anyone in the game has been
MH>using it on a regular basis;.

You can see the place where it used to be at:
http://groups.msn.com/HomeofDrizztDoUrden

In cases like that, it'd be better to put a thumbnail or a text link to
the map, so it's only served up when people really want it.  Speeds up
page loading, too.

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