Ste Packaging

After my post yesterday, I had several people ask me how much bandwidth and so on that the site uses. Here’s a run-down on the site:

The repository is made up of 4 servers.

1. Server: thetis.dreamhost.com
• Site: http://psmxy.org/iphone-apps/
• Function: Serves the repository’s XML file (approximately 456K and gradually growing) to Installer.app
• Bandwidth: Approximately 165GB per day (average) and gradually growing
• Hits: Approximately 478K per day and gradually growing
• Connections: Approximately 6 per second and gradually growing
• Other: Also home to this blog you are reading (http://blog.psmxy.org)
2. Server: calypso.dreamhost.com
• Site: http://ste-pkg.org/iphone-apps/zips/
• Function: Serves approximately 3/4 of the repository’s package zip files to Installer.app
• Bandwidth: Approximately 189GB per day (average) and gradually growing
• Hits: Approximately 390K per day and gradually growing
• Connections: Approximately 5 per second and gradually growing
3. Server: hestia.dreamhost.com
• Site: http://smxy.exploit.org/iphone-apps/zips/
• Function: Serves approximately 1/8 of the repository’s package zip files to Installer.app
• Bandwidth: Approximately 31GB per day (average) and gradually growing
• Hits: Approximately 73K per day and gradually growing
• Connections: Less than 1 per second and gradually growing
4. Server: s.natetrue.com
• Site: http://ste-repo.natetrue.com/iphone-apps/zips/
• Function: Serves approximately 1/8 of the repository’s package zip files to Installer.app
• Bandwidth: Approximately 28GB per day (average) and gradually growing
• Hits: Approximately 69K per day and gradually growing
• Connections: Less than 1 per second and gradually growing

While it’s thetis that DreamHost is currently complaining about, I’m sure they’ll be complaining about calypso soon. Thetis and calypso are accounts I have with DreamHost. The other two are under the accounts of two other folks, who have graciously allowed me to leech bandwidth from them, which is why I have them handle only a small amount of the traffic, as I don’t wish to abuse my welcome there. All four are accounts that I can ssh to, so that I can push packages to them via scp and pull the logfiles with rsync. The logs for each are important so that I can generate the daily site and download statistics.

-ste