In fact the host relented and zipped them for me. The argument, at first,
was that zipping such large files was an unfair use of CPU resources (and, I
think that downloading 8 gig would add a nice bandwidth overage to my bill).
So I cajoled a little bit and they've zipped them up - now they're a nice,
"small" 500 meg file. ;^)
Thanks for the help.
I'll probably be back once I can finally import these bastards and get some
useful information. Last I was able to look (before the hosted stats
package went haywire) we were talking 60,000 visits for the day (around
260,000 page views and 12 million hits). All run from a $20/month CFMX 6.1
shared hosting account.
Who says CF can't handle lots of traffic. ;^)
Jim Davis
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From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:01 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Anybody ever FTP VERY large files?
Eric beat me to it - Zip the log first :P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 29 January 2004 01:49
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Anybody ever FTP VERY large files?
>
>
> I need to download the log file for www.firstnight.org and
> analyze them myself (they choked the hosting providers stats
> package). I've asked for them to be zipped but I'm not sure
> that will happen (I'm already getting grief for even taking
> up the space).
>
> At any rate the files in question, December 30th and 31st are
> 3.5 and 5.2 gigabytes respectively. Damn big.
>
> I'm a cable modem and can definitely get the data (it'll take
> 12 hours or so, but it the connection stays open I'll get it)
> but I'm having trouble getting an FTP program to actually attempt it.
>
> CuteFTP (my first choice) refuses to try saying "There's not
> enough room on your hard disk for this file" - however the
> disk has 38 gig free (and was recently defragged so it has at
> least twice the needed space contiguous).
>
> Windows command line FTP gave up without trying (besides it
> has no progress status).
>
> Anybody ever do this - what app did you use?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Davis
>
>
>
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