I would suggest Cloudflare as they have no limits on bandwidth utilization & the bandwidth is completely free. You can make do with there free plan. Setup is trivial as well.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Richard Watson <[email protected]>wrote: > Some options: > > 1) At the very least, ensure Google's Edge Cache is able to cache your > images by adjusting cache control. Search this forum for some thoughts on > how. > > 2) You could try Google's PageSpeed service, although it could take time > to set up (if they accept you): > https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service > > 3) Cloudflare.com, which should reduce the load significantly, and is > fairly quick to set up. No changes to your code. > > 4) Put the images on Amazon's S3 and CloudFront, but that'll mean some > changes to publish images to it. > > 5) Use another CDN, as already mentioned. > > > On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:09:34 PM UTC+2, noiv wrote: >> >> Thanks Rob, Richard, >> >> the image tiles are directly served from GAE and only outgoing bandwidth >> limits capacity. I'm going to reach out in Winter for sponsoring, but the >> question is how to survive next 8 weeks? >> >> If I understand you correctly there might be an option to put a provider >> with unlimited bandwidth in front, so GAE serves each image only once. How >> could I start that? >> >> -- Torsten >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 11:55:13 AM UTC+2, Rob Coops wrote: >>> >>> The big question for me is where are you serving these images from? >>> If you are serving them directly from NASA servers or from an >>> alternative source then you would most likely see very little traffic as >>> most of it will be just URI's pointing to the images. There are a lot of >>> hosting companies out there that claim to deliver unlimited bandwidth (not >>> true I am sure, but worth giving it a shot). GAE seems to have been purely >>> at delivering functionality actual content should be served from other >>> locations if you want to keep bill within reason. >>> >>> If you are already showing people the images from an location other then >>> GAE you will have to choose to limit the amount of data people can consume >>> (only a static image no zooming, panning or any other fancy stuff) >>> informing visitors that you are unable to afford this functionality due to >>> the high bandwidth demands. If that still won't do it you could attempt to >>> find some company willing to sponsor your efforts, unfortunately the nature >>> of GAE means that portability is not to great so moving to an alternative >>> host will be difficult at best. >>> >>> I have seen many projects that got sponsorship from companies >>> or government organisations to allow them to continue to provide the unique >>> information to viewers. >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Watson >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Which resources are being hit the hardest? Outgoing bandwidth? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:51:45 AM UTC+2, Torsten Becker wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> since two years I’m running a blog at GAE focusing the Arctic and as >>>>> an unique feature a Google Map with daily high resolution Arctic satellite >>>>> images from NASA was included. The NASA images need to be tiled, cached >>>>> and >>>>> served and this process runs on GAE, too. >>>>> >>>>> Usually interest is low during dark Arctic Winter and rises in >>>>> September the time sea ice reaches its minimum extent. No problem so far >>>>> with the free quota on outgoing bandwidth. >>>>> >>>>> This year is different: Latest Arctic storm reduced sea ice extent by >>>>> a million square kilometers in a week and public interest was so high free >>>>> quota was exhausted 5 hours after reset. >>>>> >>>>> Now - end of August - it is absolutely clear that this year will or >>>>> has already broke all records in terms of sea ice minimum and makes a >>>>> major >>>>> step direction ice free-ness. When in a few years the Arctic lacks sea ice >>>>> completely in September, it will change weather pattern all over the >>>>> northern hemisphere - one explanation of accelerating public interests. >>>>> >>>>> I’d like to mention the project is ad free and totally beyond any >>>>> economic interests. All I want is to keep it running and give everybody on >>>>> the planet the chance to see with his own eyes how dramatic the situation >>>>> in the Arctic is. True color satellite images are free of interpretation >>>>> and do not lead to discussions whether there is sea ice or not. >>>>> >>>>> Here is the thing: If I enable billing to satisfy the need for pure >>>>> information I’m bankrupt next month. If not 99% of the users are going to >>>>> see nothing, get frustrated and possibly never come back. >>>>> >>>>> So my best option is to close the site now. >>>>> >>>>> What do you think? >>>>> >>>>> -- Torsten >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Google App Engine" group. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/** >>>> msg/google-appengine/-/**OTYSfYfbDgoJ<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/OTYSfYfbDgoJ> >>>> . >>>> >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengi...@** >>>> googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >>>> group/google-appengine?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en> >>>> . >>>> >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/6B2A1AnEMhYJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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