[kj] chat down?

[Jester]

Nope, it was actually two issues, one of which I can make room for.

1. Worst problem. Spammers spamming the blog and the referring hits. 
Looking at the log, almost 10 gigs of bandwidth used by three different 
referring hits from Japan, hitting nothing but the blog...so, will more 
than likely move the blog to a different server.

2. The new galleries from the benefit took a lot of hits and ate a lot 
of bandwidth. However, had there never been even half as much from the 
spam we would have made it through the month.

Chat used about 700 - 800 megs. The message board uses about 2 gigs.

Would switch to an irc channel, but most of the 527+ members of chat 
dont use irc, nor want to. That was clear and the reason it was shut 
down before.

So, at the latest, it will be up at midnight EST. That is about 11 
hours away. I just cant justify spending nearly $50.00 for 11 hours of 
use.


Cheers,

Jester


On Aug 31, 2005, at 8:38 AM, PRAEst76 wrote:

> Jester wrote:
>
>> Yep, everyone ran through over 27 gigs of bandwidth.
>
> No doubt the majority of it being stupid fucking animated smileys?
>
> Ban them.
>
> I miss the old irc channel. If you change the chat to a frontend for 
> IRC
> (PJIRC or such) it should share out some of the badwidth with the IRC
> server surely?
>
> Just saying... that's all...
>
>
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