Good afternoon, all,
(One kind responder said)
Try to get people to grab the file at different times, not all at the same time of the hour.
Not that Jeff mentions it, I'm now fearful the hourly surge would tax my server too much at certain moments???
Is there any way that these updates could be spread out more?
I actually tried to do that from day 1. The instructions on the web site encouraged people to put in a random pause in the cron line before downloading. It's a little hard to tell whether people are doing that or not, as I'm pegging the line starting at the top of the hour for a number of minutes. :-) Cheers, - Bill
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