[EHPweb] gzipped xml files for RSS feeds now being generated

[Wald Lisa]

I'm still waiting to hear the answers to how Akamai charges us.  Lorna  
Schmid was supposed to transmit these questions to Akamai and get back  
to me.

- Lisa
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On Jul 15, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Robert Simpson wrote:

Hi Jeremy,

Can you clarify some points for me?

1) Do we know if Akamai charges us for bandwidth before or after they
perform "Last Mile Compression"?
2) Do we know if they are charging us extra for the "Last Mile
Compression" service?

This becomes a big deal since nearly 50% of our bandwidth is currently
used by requests for uncompressed xml files, and, in fact, 33% of our
bandwidth is filled by requests to one free Firefox plugin named eQuake.

As a rough estimate 33% of the current $420K that USGS spends on
Akamai each year is $140,000.

At the moment, if I try to wget a compressed file, Akamai uncompresses
it before it gets sent, so last mile compression seems more like
gratuitous last mile uncompression.  Grrrr.  And they're probably
charging us for that too!

Bob

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On Jul 15, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Jeremy Fee wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> We shouldn't need to do this since akamai offers on the fly
> compression.
>
> Jeremy Fee
> Geologic Hazards Team
> (303) 273-8632
> jmfee at usgs.gov
>
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Robert Simpson wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I just modified Scott's /home/quake/REQS_MYSQL/rss.pl script so that
>> it generates compressed eq*xml.gz files (as well as the old
>> uncompressed files) in directory  /eqcenter/catalogs.  These files
>> are
>> used in RSS feeds.  If you see any problems, please let me know.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
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