On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 17:31, Darren Pearce <[email protected]> wrote: > Many thanks for the prompt reply. First of all, yes, the data will be > open source. As for the 200Mb limit, we'll have to make do with > splitting the zip up. :) I must admit though that I am somewhat > curious as to why it is limited by the technology to this level... :) > I appreciate your point about reducing the size of the upload. > However, reduction not only reduces our use of resources but also > means our users have to download less. Thanks for all the support.
I'm afraid I can't go into the details on why this upper bound exists, since it touches on various pieces of infrastructure that (a) I'm no longer that familiar with and (b) I'm not sure I'm at liberty to discuss :-(. I've increased your per-file upload limit to 200MB, enjoy! - Dave > > :D > > On 5/16/09, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Darren, >> >> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 14:15, Darren Pearce <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> I am the admin of the ecology-laboratory Google Code project. Could you >>> please increase our download per-file quota to 500Mb? We have a ~350Mb zip >>> of audio files that are used by the software that we need to upload. We >>> will >>> try to reduce the size of this in the future but, for now, we have to work >>> with the resources we have got. >> >> Before we continue, just one thing I'd like to clarify: that data will >> be under an open source license, right? >> >> As for increasing the file quota, unfortunately, in our current setup >> 200MB per file is all that we can manage. If it's feasible for you to >> split that zip up into two pieces, I can bump you up to that much no >> problem though. >> >> And finally, on getting the usage down: if the data is under an open >> license, and is needed by the project, then by all means, use our >> infrastructure! Our concern is abuse of resources, but if the resource >> usage is necessary and benefits an open source project, we can >> certainly take it, and we're happy to. >> >> - Dave >> >>> Many thanks in advance, >>> :Darren. >>> >>> -- >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> :Darren :Pearce >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> *** Shop & Donate: http://buy.at/campuskids *** >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> [email protected] >>> Postdoctoral Researcher >>> London Knowledge Lab, University of London >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> [email protected] >>> Visiting Research Fellow >>> Informatics, University of Sussex >>> http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/darrenp/ >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenpearce >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > :Darren :Pearce > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > *** Shop & Donate: http://buy.at/campuskids *** > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [email protected] > Postdoctoral Researcher > London Knowledge Lab, University of London > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [email protected] > Visiting Research Fellow > Informatics, University of Sussex > http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/darrenp/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [email protected] > http://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenpearce > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. 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-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
