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Team Mousetrap runs Debian Linux boxen.
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bandwidth and mousetrap.net
Mousetrap.net is no longer under strict bandwidth limitations, but in
the spirit of conserving the commons, the following configuration is still valid:
- turned on .html compression (mod_gzip) in apache. This greatly reduces
bandwidth on text and html pages.
- started aggressively blocking spam at the server.
- set maximum incoming message size at 1MB.
- run all LAN HTTP traffic through privoxy to strip out ad banners and other unnecessary content
Stuff you can do:
- telnet: use SSH instead, with compression turned on. SSH is much better from a security standpoint anyhow. putty is a great tool for doing SSH from windoze machines. Telnet will go away.
- POP3/IMAP: check your mail at a sane interval.
- FTP: do not needlessly move stuff to/from the servers.
- FTP: do not store your personal or business backups on the servers.
- HTTP: minimize the size of your graphics, as they are not compressed by apache.
- HTTP: do not post binary files for download. I store my downloadable stuff offsite on free servers.
Thanks for your help!
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