On May 29, 12:35 pm, Gandalf <goldn...@gmail.comwrote:
On May 29, 11:58 am, "rf" <r...@invalid.comwrote:
"Gandalf" <goldn...@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@q69g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com...
>I wrote a chat width AJAX.
Crikey, re-write it will you mate!
After -Lost made a response to your post I dived in for a look.
I let it run for exactly 20 seconds. During that time it used up 100KB of my
bandwidth. That is 5K of data per second. Outrageous.
I pay many dollars per month for my bandwidth, and my cap is 1GB per month.
Over that I pay twenty cents per megabyte.
<does sumsIf I were to have your page simply sitting on my browser for
just 10 minutes your page would use up my bandwidth allocation for the
entire day.
And that is just me. What about your end. Lets say you have 10 people
online. That is 50K per second out of your bandwidth. 175MB per hour. Four
and a quarter gigabytes per day. 123 gigabytes per month. I hope you have an
"unlimited" hosting plan :-)
--
Richard.
Where do you live, mate?
I never heard of it.
In Israel it doesn't work like that at all.
Until this day I never thought anyone pays for bandwidth. Otherwise I
would owe my Internet company milions of dolars :) (my emule works
most of the day ).
Richard is right. If you plan to make something useful, that doesn't
just squander one's bandwidth (maybe in Israel it's not like that, but
in פלשתי×*×” it might be ;-) ), you shouldconsider making some kind of
connection-based protocol. For example, I am right now in the middle
of a project that serves similar purpose - I am making as part of the
site I am on a module that serves the purpose of "live" betting - the
page should be dynamically updated as soon as quotas or conditions for
bets change in the database. So I made a daemon (am making, as a
matter of fact) sitting on the server that keeps connections from Ajax
on the clients, and gives them information just in the moment when
something changes. You could make something like that too - broadcast
messages only when someone says something. Of course, you can't rely
on the Apache server, since it usually has some kind of time limit for
one request, so you have to write your own server, but that's pretty
trivial, you can even write it in PHP, if you're not familiar with c/c+
+/Java, although I would recommend C++. Of course, all of this if you
want to spend more time for this and you want to make quality chat. If
you need support for this, you can ask here or at comp.lang.c++ or
comp.lang.c or comp.unix.programming...