On Mar 11, 2009, at 12:26 AM, Kirk Ouimet wrote:
@Lonnie:
My host sells personal servers by stating that a benefit of the
service is
that you can change your resources real-time. In fact, they
specifically
state: "your goal is to keep the load as low as possible." Here's a
pic:
http://www.kirkouimet.com/files/images/auto-scaler.gif
I checked the ToS and couldn't find anything stating using a script to
automate this task as breaking my agreement with my host. By
implementing a
CAPTCHA it is very apparent that they want to make it difficult for
their
users to automate the changing of allocated resources, but they
haven't
explicitly stated that they will cancel my account or take action
against
me. However; I would turn it off if they asked me to.
I think this still ignores the best way forward, ask for a direct
authenticated API to make the changes. Other wise you'll end up
playing cat and mouse trying to keep up with every change then make to
the form. Scraping web pages because they lack an API for their
service is sooooo 1996 :-)
--
Joseph Scott
[email protected]
http://josephscott.org/
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