I finally moved Tartan's sites over to Jennifer and put in redirection pages at the original site on Yahoo! Already we're getting 1000 page requests a day, or about 7000 requests a day (which I assume includes all file types). It's only about one or two pages a minute, and Tartan finely tuned the index pages to load quickly (the full graphic images are mostly less than 200 kb). So my 128 kb upstream connection seems to be handling the load ok. Other than when it's down which it seems to have been at about 04:00 the past couple of nights, as evidenced by the page requests dropping to < 10 an hour during that time.

So I spent yesterday reorganizing the site, at least the Hudson Leick section. It was all practically in one folder of 750+ files. Putting the different sections in their own folders and fixing all the links and adding default index files and an error file took a few hours. The next thing to do is to add me as the webmaster so people have someone to complain to rather than poor Tartan; a what's new page; seeing if I can recover the movie clips from Griller; adding the ANE folder which Tartan left unlinked; then maybe expanding the site with more current pictures.

Big problem that I see is that the music video files are 15-30 MB each, which would take 20-40 minutes for someone to download assuming they have the full pipe. Get 4 modem users and it take a couple of hours to download one file. (And actually about 1/3 of the users seem to be on some kind of broadband connection: DSL, cable mode, university access.) I'm thinking of making them ftp accessed files and setting the ftp server to 2-3 connections. That way I can guarantee some sort of minimum speed. The problem will get worse if I get the movie clips back too, so I have to think of a solution soon.

MacConnect seems to have good DSL packages. Too bad their web site is a bit confusing at times. They specialize in Mac OS service, which is a bit weird since it's not much different than a PC in terms of an Internet connection. Their business packages include 13 IP addresses, and DSL through Rhythms (MacConnect is partnered with several DSL providers) is $150 for 384 kb and $230 for 768 kb (it's all Symmetric DSL, 1.5 Mbit for $370 -- I remember when a T1 cost $1000 a month... they still do come to think of it). PacBell plus the phone line are $100 a month for 5 IP addresses and 128 kb upload. But PacBell also includes a dial-up account which my mom uses, so that would be an extra $20 a month for an AOL account. An extra $70 a month is not bad for x3 upstream speed, which should be adequate. There's also a $400 equipment fee for a DSL router.

The problem is the one-year commitment (which applies to DSL accounts from most providers). I kind of want to move to the new apartments in Oakland (which are already pre-leasing, I should go there and see how much the rent is) or buy a home, so I don't want to be tied down. But knowing me I have a good chance of not going anywhere so the DSL line would be useful. Sigh, so many concers, not quite enough free cash. I don't even know if the line will support a 384 kb DSL connection.

The other thing I was thinking of doing was running a Quid Pro Quo server instead of NetPresenz. Even though it's no longer supported, QPQ does have Java Servlet support and better logging. I can even have it run a CGI program on a page miss, much like how I do redirection on NetPresenz. Unfortunately it doesn't provide the correct URL information to the CGI program, so I can't tell what web site the user was trying to get to. I could just set it up on port 81 and set the root folder to Tartan's site. That way it only keeps track of the high usage files. Don't particularly like that option though.