Careful now, XML is bigger than you think!

[daj]

I was examining my bandwidth usage for my weather website this morning and got a bit of a surprise. I had uploaded 5Gb of data to it in the last 15 days. How can that be I ask myself?!

Further investigation reveals the culprit. In playing around with XML formats, I had inadvertently told Cumulus to process the XML template in realtime, every 15 seconds. So let's do the maths....

86,400 seconds in a day. I upload every 15 seconds, so that it 5760 uploads per day. The XML file is 56Kb which equals roughly 315Mb per day. After 15 days that is 4.7Gb

Compare that to the realtime.txt file....222bytes * 5760 = 1.2 Mb per day, 18Mb in 15 days

The moral of the story, watch what you upload in realtime!!!!

[steve]

Indeed - even just uploading realtime.txt once every 5 seconds is over 100MB per month, which exceeds the bandwidth limit on some web hosting - if such limited accounts still exist? It also may eat a good chunk of the allowance on your broadband account.

On a related note, there has apparently been a comment/complaint that Cumulus causes huge ftp logs on web servers!

[daj]

On a related note, there has apparently been a comment/complaint that Cumulus causes huge ftp logs on web servers!

How dare someone complain of the beloved Cumulus....details please and I will visit them in the wee small hours


But, yes the webserver log file does grow quickly as it logs your 15 (or 5) second uploads

[steve]

But, yes the webserver log file does grow quickly as it logs your 15 (or 5) second uploads

My web hosting doesn't seem to log ftp, maybe there's an option to turn it on. I know it doesn't log http, unless you turn it on. Then what you find is that people start visiting your web site, of all things, and the logs start increasing in size! That's the trouble with logs; you do something, and they log it! What's that all about?

[risiss]

wow thats a lot,never did the maths but...

thats why im using my own server with url redirection