[gopher] Throttling gopher daemon is desirable

[Kim Holviala]

On Jun 22, 2013, at 14:29, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:03:40PM +0300, Kim Holviala wrote:
>> On Jun 21, 2013, at 21:06, Jeff W <simple at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> dave at 661.org wrote:
>>>> I figure there hasn't been much call for throttling functionality for
>>>> gopher daemons.  Today it would have been much appreciated.
>>> 
>>> WRT your recent experience, was it by chance someone at *.rr.com ?  I've
>>> seen quite a bit of traffic from that domain recently.
>> 
>> 
>> Even though I implemented throttling in Gophernicus I really don't see
>> why we should actually use that? In the site I'm running for living
>> we're getting about 3000 requests per second, and those are served
>> with normal hardware any one of us could buy. So, requesting 10s of
>> thousands of gopher resources shouldn't really tax anyone that hard
>> especially since all the Gopher daemons I know are really lightweight.
> 
> I'd guess some people are in places where the internet link is charged
> by the amount of data transferred, instead of a flatrate.

True, but why would anyone run a server on a metered link? That's totally insane because you give others the permission to increase the bill...



- Kim