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The gypsy website has slowed to a crawl due to traffic. Apparently a website at www.boingboing.net has linked to the Cantina Crawl VII video and also to the WindSpire guys with a front page news blurb. My website is getting completely hammered, this account wasn't meant to take this punishment.

I needed to look at rehosting anyway for space purposes, but now this is in crisis mode. Since I've got links to everyone else's videos, be aware you may be also getting some residual backlash. Fortunately, Balgosa was smart enough to get his videos hosted by IGN, which can take the traffic. I'm afraid I wasn't so smart.

If anyone knows of a way to help this situation, I'd be much obliged. I don't want to take the video down, but if it keeps up I'm going to have to.

- J

I'm not seeing a lot of traffic at the moment. Saw a peak the end of last week - 300 hits on the 12th, 375 on the 13th, 200 on the 14th, 125 on the 15th, then back down to a slow and steady 30/40 a day since then.

On doing download only vs streaming, what I did was told my web server to force it to be "application/octet-stream", so web browsers won't try and do anything with it. It doesn't get all of the hits, but it gets most of em.

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Groovymarlin wrote:

Isn't there a way to make the video download only, and not streamable? I think the massive amounts of bandwidth usually come with streaming, not just downloads.

Oh well at least the attention is all positive.

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I don't think it would have mattered, it was just getting hit too much. The counter on the download page was jumping up on the order of 100 every few minutes, on a 35mb file. Streaming just means that the player on the other end will attempt to play the video once enough of it has downloaded. The benefit to forcing them to save it to disk is if they want to play it again later on, they won't have to download it again.

I've put it back up temporarily and I'll watch it carefully.

Thankfully it looks like I'm going to get assistance from one or two popular news sites. Yay! Thank god.

I noticed sometimes with streaming instead of one big hit, it'll give a bunch of small hits requesting only a postion of the file.

Had to take the video offline. I'll put it back once I find a site to host it, or once the news on that site falls off the front page. Sorry, all.