SCN: SCNA general meeting 6/9.

[ljbeedle at scn.org]

I store all my org videos on YouTube and slide shows on
Picasa. However I don't think that helps the data transfer
 amount.  If we got in a pinch I could always ship folks
off to those sites instead of letting them view via the
html page.

I also have several large pdf files in the Washington
Pioneer directory.  Not sure where I could store those. 
They don't get used often but someone always seems to be
looking for them.

Do we have anyone keeping track of the bandwidth being used
by our visitors?  It would seem to me that with the library
providing wifi in all locations - for free - plus allowing
ebook borrows with a 25 book limit - that we might just be
a very tiny blip on their horizon.

Lois





> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Randy Groves wrote:
> > ... we are hugely at the mercy of SPL and their network 
> > connection. I was not privy to any discussions
specifically 
> > on this issue, but in the past there have been (via
hearsay)
> > statements by the library to the effect that if we start
> > becoming a drain on the resources, we may be asked to
leave.
> 
> Randy,
> 
> Unless there's a crunch looming at the Library right
away, the
> HTML pages (all of the Web site as such) could stay on
the Web 
> server at the Library, while any multimedia files or
other large
> data files could be served from an SCN server in another data
> center, e.g. files.scn.org. That way, if there were to be
a big
> increase in data transfer, almost all of it would happen
outside
> the Library's network.
> 
> Starting small with one external server and an inexpensive
> network connection could get SCN's feet wet with
developing some
> additional capacity outside the Library. Here in Seattle
there's
> a tentacle of something called 100TB.com that provides high
> bandwidth connections, and there probably are other similar
> operations. Something like that now seems to cost a few
hundred
> dollars a month and up. I'm completely unfamiliar with
this, and
> who knows exactly how much of the stated maximum data
transfer
> would actually be usable in practice. But if, say, 10TB
were to
> be inadequate for SCN in the near future I would be
surprised.
> 
> In the very beginning, just to play with some things,
maybe even
> start with a VPS instead of setting up a colocated server. A
> little unmanaged VPS at the place we're using costs $10/month
> and allows a maximum data transfer of 300 GB/month,
though how
> optimistic that figure is I don't know. With the blog we're
> using 15 GB/month on some sort of "cloud server" - don't
ask me
> exactly how cloudy it is. If we went from 32kbps MP3s to
640x360
> video at 500kbps, that'd up the monthly transfer from ~15
GB to
> ~250 GB/month, which would probably mean moving to a bit
larger
> VPS than the little one mentioned above.
> 
> Anyway, have some fun and experiment. After a while the
result
> might be that SCN would be better prepared to expand, and to
> cope with the Library's limitations at some point further on.
> 
> Rod
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