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Undertoad · 12-03-2001, 11:57 AM

The Cellar web site takes up very little space. All of the database is 16 megs - that's all the posts, users, etc. The site's directory takes about 30 megs not including the database, but that includes a backup of itself (don't ask), 16 megs of pictures, and the entire Cellar mark 4 which lived for a year before this version.

I am thinking of rebuilding the system upon which it lives, not because it needs more power (after all, the P3-500 managed the fark invasion), but because the age of commodity hardware means that two active years of duty is about as long as I trust the components in this box.

Asking for a donation for it is really a foreign concept to me. I just couldn't. The Cellar takes so little to manage; I should think it would run just as well if it had a dedicated Pentium 90 with a 20 gb IDE drive. The connectivity bill is what kills me, at $1500/month. No donations would even make a dent in that, but it's paid for via the other work I do, and the Cellar takes a tiny percentage of all the connectivity.

The words that we write are its real value, its only value, and in that you've donated quite a bit, dham... no complaints, man, but you don't have to be the latest poster on EVERY forum!

12-03-2001, 11:57 AM	#8
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The Cellar web site takes up very little space. All of the database is 16 megs - that's all the posts, users, etc. The site's directory takes about 30 megs not including the database, but that includes a backup of itself (don't ask), 16 megs of pictures, and the entire Cellar mark 4 which lived for a year before this version. I am thinking of rebuilding the system upon which it lives, not because it needs more power (after all, the P3-500 managed the fark invasion), but because the age of commodity hardware means that two active years of duty is about as long as I trust the components in this box. Asking for a donation for it is really a foreign concept to me. I just couldn't. The Cellar takes so little to manage; I should think it would run just as well if it had a dedicated Pentium 90 with a 20 gb IDE drive. The connectivity bill is what kills me, at $1500/month. No donations would even make a dent in that, but it's paid for via the other work I do, and the Cellar takes a tiny percentage of all the connectivity. The words that we write are its real value, its only value, and in that you've donated quite a bit, dham... no complaints, man, but you don't have to be the latest poster on EVERY forum!

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