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RE: NNTP feed.
- From: Justin M. Streiner
- Date: Tue Sep 05 22:27:55 2006
Sorry to reply to my own post, but after reading further into this thread,
I saw that my estimation of "substantially higher than 350 GB/day" shows
how long I've been out of the business of driving large news servers :)
jms
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, John van Oppen wrote:
we don't run one either... :)
The last person I know who was running one, was in the proccess of killing
it.
I used to run one, but haven't, since about 2000 :) The provider i worked
for at the time got out of the game and outsourced news because otherwise we
would have needed to dump a lot of money into disk space to keep people from
bitching about the sub-24 hr retention times on alt.binaries.$VICE :(
That was the blessing and the curse of cyclical filesystems, I guess :)
On the plus side, Highwind's news server software just flat-out ran - never
gave me a single problem in the 3 years I ran it. That plus a separate box
running diablo to manage the feeds was a winning combination
:)
More and more people are outsourcing news because providing good news service
requires tons of disk space and loads of network bandwidth, i.e. it costs a
lot of money to operate, and for many providers, it doesn't make any money.
The last time I looked at newsfeed stats, a full feed with all the
alt.binaries crap was running around 350 GB/day - I wouldn't be at all
surprised if it's substantially higher now.
jms
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