downloads

when's the download page going to be back up?

i miss it

yeah downloads

What was an overall size of a download section? About 35GB? I remember there were a lot of FLACs...

Yeah, it really needs to come back online (and yes, that's my fault it hasn't) - the problem is that we do have about 35GB of material available (many FLACs), and with our hosting company we had at the time, that wasn't an issue - what was an issue was the high spikes in CPU usage that got our account there suspended, and forced us to move to more reliable and "professional" hosting, at a higher monthly cost, and drastically less space (most hosting companies "oversell" their storage and bandwidth they offer, since realistically, hardly anyone actually uses those insane amounts - at least that's what the hosting company hopes will happen). Unfortunately you end up on a server with quite a few other websites, and that load on the CPU can easily spike, setting off alarms at the hosting company (they want to keep CPU usage at a certain level to ensure server stability), and too many instances of that causes them to suspend your account.

At this point I think it is possible to host the downloads, and remotely link them here, either via FTP or set up another domain and host them that way, linking them here.

If I have time today, I'll see about doing some tests and see what happens.

Yeah you should think about getting an Amazon S3 account and then linking to them from here.

  On 8/31/2010 at 3:57 PM, Joy Rex said:

Yeah, it really needs to come back online (and yes, that's my fault it hasn't) - the problem is that we do have about 35GB of material available (many FLACs), and with our hosting company we had at the time, that wasn't an issue - what was an issue was the high spikes in CPU usage that got our account there suspended, and forced us to move to more reliable and "professional" hosting, at a higher monthly cost, and drastically less space (most hosting companies "oversell" their storage and bandwidth they offer, since realistically, hardly anyone actually uses those insane amounts - at least that's what the hosting company hopes will happen). Unfortunately you end up on a server with quite a few other websites, and that load on the CPU can easily spike, setting off alarms at the hosting company (they want to keep CPU usage at a certain level to ensure server stability), and too many instances of that causes them to suspend your account.

 

At this point I think it is possible to host the downloads, and remotely link them here, either via FTP or set up another domain and host them that way, linking them here.

 

If I have time today, I'll see about doing some tests and see what happens.

just go with mediafire. seriously. some friends from another website and i have a 50+ gb (and still growing) mediafire free account. uploading and downloading could be faster but it's certainly better than any torrent sites.

  On 8/31/2010 at 5:13 PM, disparaissant said:

  On 8/31/2010 at 3:57 PM, Joy Rex said:

Yeah, it really needs to come back online (and yes, that's my fault it hasn't) - the problem is that we do have about 35GB of material available (many FLACs), and with our hosting company we had at the time, that wasn't an issue - what was an issue was the high spikes in CPU usage that got our account there suspended, and forced us to move to more reliable and "professional" hosting, at a higher monthly cost, and drastically less space (most hosting companies "oversell" their storage and bandwidth they offer, since realistically, hardly anyone actually uses those insane amounts - at least that's what the hosting company hopes will happen). Unfortunately you end up on a server with quite a few other websites, and that load on the CPU can easily spike, setting off alarms at the hosting company (they want to keep CPU usage at a certain level to ensure server stability), and too many instances of that causes them to suspend your account.

 

At this point I think it is possible to host the downloads, and remotely link them here, either via FTP or set up another domain and host them that way, linking them here.

 

If I have time today, I'll see about doing some tests and see what happens.

 

just go with mediafire. seriously. some friends from another website and i have a 50+ gb (and still growing) mediafire free account. uploading and downloading could be faster but it's certainly better than any torrent sites.

what is the limit (gb) of a free account?

What about a Wattum private tracker for users with torrents??? that way as long as everyone seeds and holds onto things then it'll be ok with Joyrex reseeding every so often certain sets here and there which have been forgotten....

  On 8/31/2010 at 8:27 PM, Macca said:

What about a Wattum private tracker for users with torrents??? that way as long as everyone seeds and holds onto things then it'll be ok with Joyrex reseeding every so often certain sets here and there which have been forgotten....

a private tracker would work very well in a community like watmm, plus i know a lot of the members here use private music sharing trackers, so they are used to it. seeding wouldn't be a problem at all.

i support this.

Hmmm... a tracker is not a bad idea - it would depend on how many members of WATMM run their BT clients continuously, as I wouldn't want it to all depend on just a few members to carry that load...

  On 8/31/2010 at 9:14 PM, Joy Rex said:

Hmmm... a tracker is not a bad idea - it would depend on how many members of WATMM run their BT clients continuously, as I wouldn't want it to all depend on just a few members to carry that load...

as i use whatcd i run utorrent pretty much everyday for a couple of hours, and there are plenty of members here using bt clients as well. i honestly think it would work better that the previous scheme or mediafire and such things.

  On 8/31/2010 at 5:44 PM, ruiagnelo said:

  On 8/31/2010 at 5:13 PM, disparaissant said:

  On 8/31/2010 at 3:57 PM, Joy Rex said:

Yeah, it really needs to come back online (and yes, that's my fault it hasn't) - the problem is that we do have about 35GB of material available (many FLACs), and with our hosting company we had at the time, that wasn't an issue - what was an issue was the high spikes in CPU usage that got our account there suspended, and forced us to move to more reliable and "professional" hosting, at a higher monthly cost, and drastically less space (most hosting companies "oversell" their storage and bandwidth they offer, since realistically, hardly anyone actually uses those insane amounts - at least that's what the hosting company hopes will happen). Unfortunately you end up on a server with quite a few other websites, and that load on the CPU can easily spike, setting off alarms at the hosting company (they want to keep CPU usage at a certain level to ensure server stability), and too many instances of that causes them to suspend your account.

 

At this point I think it is possible to host the downloads, and remotely link them here, either via FTP or set up another domain and host them that way, linking them here.

 

If I have time today, I'll see about doing some tests and see what happens.

 

just go with mediafire. seriously. some friends from another website and i have a 50+ gb (and still growing) mediafire free account. uploading and downloading could be faster but it's certainly better than any torrent sites.

 

what is the limit (gb) of a free account?

that's what i was thinking! the downloads don't have to be on watmm

  On 8/31/2010 at 9:14 PM, Joy Rex said:

Hmmm... a tracker is not a bad idea - it would depend on how many members of WATMM run their BT clients continuously, as I wouldn't want it to all depend on just a few members to carry that load...

my computer is always on and so is µtorrent, i don't know how much i would download and seed though, probably mostly squarepusher

My uTorrent is up 16/24.

i've talked with chaos before in chatmm, but i don't think the resources are available to have a watmm private tracker of sorts. in a perfect world, it would bind to your registered account, have ratios, and i'd seed about every idm live set in existence, cuz you know...i like to spread my seed innit