Watch Out For Bandwidth Hog SE

RawAlex · 05-24-2009

If you have never seen it, have a look at searchme.com - search for "news". It's dog slow because this site actually loads all the pages realtime and displays them as images you can click on. The interface is, well, whatever - but it is a massive bandwidth hog.

http://www.searchme.com/#/&q=carol%20cox

That actually pulls the pages off carol's site realtime to make up the search pages. The user never even has to go there to be using up bandwidth. Get a popular search term, and you could end up wasting a ton of money of connectivity to keep these people happy - not to mention server resources.

You can spot them as 208.111.154.16 and 208.111.154.15

05-24-2009	#1
RawAlex Members $100 for every ImLive sign-up Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,036	Watch Out For Bandwidth Hog SE If you have never seen it, have a look at searchme.com - search for "news". It's dog slow because this site actually loads all the pages realtime and displays them as images you can click on. The interface is, well, whatever - but it is a massive bandwidth hog. http://www.searchme.com/#/&q=carol%20cox That actually pulls the pages off carol's site realtime to make up the search pages. The user never even has to go there to be using up bandwidth. Get a popular search term, and you could end up wasting a ton of money of connectivity to keep these people happy - not to mention server resources. You can spot them as 208.111.154.16 and 208.111.154.15 __________________ Let's go to the edge of disaster Push the pedal and go a little faster Let's slam into a wall at ramming speed Let's go to the edge of a mountain Jump off and lets start countin' Hit the ground and tell me if it bleeds

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