Um, regardless of whether you CAN increase the pipe or not, that isn't the point.
After all, the problem is that the misbehaving app/person is flooding a slow link - what prevents them from doing the same to your faster link that you've just paid extra money for? As Volker put it, bandwidth management is the only answer here. Thankfully, Linux does this quite nicely. Brett. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Cheetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 2:09 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CLUG web server changes > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:30:02PM +1200, Don Gould wrote: > > I was saying that people need to stop worrying about what > google is up > > to and just put in a bigger pipe. As the discussion is > about hosting > > then it's right no. > > It's not primarily a Linux-related issue, but people running > servers at > home on Telecom-provided ADSL cannot increase their upstream capacity, > therefore as Volker pointed out, they should be aware of the > actions of > google and friends. The CLUG webserver sends about three times as much > data to the index spiders as it does to people; that pattern is > indicative of a serious problem for some people. > > If I remember correctly, didn't you claim to have revolutionised the > Australian ISP market in some regard while you were over > there? Couldn't > you do the same here? There are numerous forums dedicated to > telecommunications, and indeed specifically to ADSL, that > would be very > interested. Just not many Linux ones, except as a side-effect of their > technical interests. > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >Don, putting the tag "SPAM" in your subject line does not excuse a > > >meaningless post. > > This could be on-topic; Don's spamassassin instance on his clarke > connect machine is telling us that bowenvale.co.nz is a known phishing > spam source. > > Unfortunately, it seems that his spamassassin is broken, > because the RBL > in question does not list bowenvale.co.nz in any capacity. > > However, I think we've already established that no-one here has enough > interest or experience of clarke connect to be able to offer > meaningful > help. > > -jim >
