[92076] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NNTP feed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Tue Sep 5 22:26:28 2006
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609052210370.30980@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sorry to reply to my own post, but after reading further into this thread,
I saw that my estimation of "substantially higher than 350 GB/day" shows
how long I've been out of the business of driving large news servers :)
jms
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, John van Oppen wrote:
>
>> we don't run one either... :)
>>
>> The last person I know who was running one, was in the proccess of killing
>> it.
>
> I used to run one, but haven't, since about 2000 :) The provider i worked
> for at the time got out of the game and outsourced news because otherwise we
> would have needed to dump a lot of money into disk space to keep people from
> bitching about the sub-24 hr retention times on alt.binaries.$VICE :(
> That was the blessing and the curse of cyclical filesystems, I guess :)
>
> On the plus side, Highwind's news server software just flat-out ran - never
> gave me a single problem in the 3 years I ran it. That plus a separate box
> running diablo to manage the feeds was a winning combination
> :)
>
> More and more people are outsourcing news because providing good news service
> requires tons of disk space and loads of network bandwidth, i.e. it costs a
> lot of money to operate, and for many providers, it doesn't make any money.
>
> The last time I looked at newsfeed stats, a full feed with all the
> alt.binaries crap was running around 350 GB/day - I wouldn't be at all
> surprised if it's substantially higher now.
>
> jms
>
>
