Congrats. Good problem to have. Audacity Team moved our beta downloads 
and active code repository to Google Code (http://code.google.com/) a 
while back and that's working great for us. We're still using 
Sourceforge for the stable release downloads.

- Vaughan


On 7/10/2010 1:25 PM, Albert Santoni wrote:
> I've just added an .htaccess temporary redirect on:
> http://downloads.mixxx.org/mixxx-1.7.2/mixxx-1.7.2-win32.exe
>
> It now goes to a page with a BitTorrent magnet link and some crappy
> RapidShare and Megaupload links. If you've got bandwidth to spare,
> please seed our torrent!
>
> If you've got even more bandwidth to spare, or you have ideas on how
> we can affordably manage 2 TB of data transfer per month, please let
> me know. :)
>
> I've been really caught off-guard by this, I really don't know what
> the permanent solution is....
>
> Thanks,
> Albert
>
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Albert Santoni<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Good news, everyone! Mixxx 1.7.2 for Win32 is getting a record number
>> of downloads!
>>
>> Bad news, from our $10/mo downloads.mixxx.org shared web hosting provider:
>>
>> "I apologize, but I was forced to suspend the script
>> "/home/mixxx/public_html/downloads/mixxx-1.7.2/mixxx-1.7.2-win32.exe"
>> as it was the sheer number of requests to this script overloaded
>> Apache, causing issues for the rest of the sites on the server.
>> Please be aware that this is not a CPU issue, but a traffic issue.
>> The traffic incoming to this domain is causing Apache's clients to
>> fill, causing other sites on this server to load very slow."
>>
>> They said it's not an attack, it's just volume, and that:
>>
>> "This might also be the right time to upgrade your account to a VPS or
>> a dedicated solution, as your site may have simply outgrown our shared
>> environment."
>>
>> This year, we've averaged about 1100 gigs of data transferred each
>> month from downloads.mixxx.org, and this month we going to fall on the
>> high side of that, maybe even as high as 1600 gigs.
>>
>> If we were to upgrade to VPS hosting with the same hosting provider,
>> we'd have to pay $100/month in order to get enough bandwidth.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> (We could temporarily throw 1.7.2 for win32 back on SourceForge.....
>> but I reaallly don't like SourceForge.....)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Albert
>>
>
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