Polverone - 26-2-2005 at 03:31
I have discovered that I am almost certainly going to be paying bandwidth overages this month for going past the 10 GB of traffic that my hosting plan
allows. I have searched for the source of this problem, and discovered (among other things) that there are many images stored in scipics that are
greater than 100 K in size. Yes, this is my fault for not making sure that the "guardian" script ran regularly. Here are the images:
104K extraction3.jpg
104K NGsynth01.jpg
104K bolt_fuse.jpg
104K catalystconc.jpg
104K NGsynth21.jpg
104K NGsynth34.jpg
104K Na2.jpg
108K glassrod.jpg
108K themagicreagent.jpg
108K Cyclo100_0901.JPG
108K benzaldehydereceiver.jpg
108K Cyclo100_0900.JPG
112K extraction2.jpg
112K Emulsion.jpg
112K anodebleeding.jpg
112K valve.jpg
112K extraction1.jpg
116K 2finishedproduct.jpg
120K cyclodrip.jpg
120K regeneration2.jpg
124K sideview.jpg
124K firstdistillate2.jpg
124K anodmite2.jpg
128K yield2.jpg
128K toluenereactant.jpg
128K soxhlet.jpg
128K oxidizingpaste.jpg
136K anodemites.jpg
140K distillation3.jpg
140K 2cyclooildroplets.jpg
140K anodmite.jpg
140K cell.jpg
140K pouringtheoil.jpg
140K cycloswirlies2.jpg
140K nearlythere.jpg
140K 2cyclooilydroplets.jpg
144K yield.jpg
144K toluenelayer.jpg
144K separation.jpg
148K DCMcominover.jpg
148K letsreact.jpg
148K benzaldehydecomingover.jpg
152K reaction.jpg
152K cinnamaldehyde2.jpg
152K 2tolueneoxidationcontinuing.jpg
152K benzaldehydecondensate.jpg
156K cinnfraction.jpg
156K tolueneextraction.jpg
156K intheoilgoes.jpg
160K reaction2.jpg
164K 2cyclo3neck2.jpg
164K firstdistillate.jpg
168K cycloswirlies.jpg
168K reflux3.jpg
172K JOrgChem3.jpg
172K cinnamonproduct.jpg
172K benzaldehydecondensate2.jpg
176K cinnamaldehyde.jpg
176K 2cyclotoplayermixed.jpg
176K cinnamonproduct2.jpg
176K reflux2.jpg
184K product2.jpg
184K anodmite4.jpg
184K vigreuxcolumn.jpg
188K itsabubblin.jpg
192K vacuumdistillation.jpg
192K 60gsodiumcarb.jpg
192K 2cyclosetup.jpg
196K Dazzling4.jpg
196K 2cyclosteamdistillation2.jpg
200K power.jpg
200K 2Cyclosteamdistillation.jpg
208K Dazzling1.jpg
208K 2magicingredients2.jpg
212K 100_0903.JPG
212K itsabubblin2.jpg
212K distillation.jpg
216K reflux.jpg
216K Dazzling2.jpg
232K electrodes.jpg
236K electodeart.jpg
244K anodmite5.jpg
268K moreanodmites.jpg
284K JOrgChem2.jpg
360K JOrgChem.jpg
All of these files have been automatically reduced to under 100 K with a little script I wrote. If you think that my autoshrinker rendered your image
ugly or illegible, find posts where you have referenced it and replace it with a modified image of your own (under 100 K, or not hosted on
sciencemadness). In case you don't happen to have a local backup of your pictures, I have saved the original too-large images in http://www.sciencemadness.org/scipics/toolarge/. You may retrieve them from that location, but I will permanently delete them in a week or so.
What a surprise
Polverone - 1-3-2005 at 00:31
As it turns out, we did exceed the month's bandwidth limit but the effect was to shut down sciencemadness rather than charge me money for extra
bandwidth. I'm glad that February is a short month! I hope that shrinking the images and moving all PDF files to BromicAcid's host will
prevent a recurrence of this lapse in service, but that depends on how much the site continues to grow. I know that this site is busier than it was
just a few months ago. I'm often surprised by how many registered members and guests are logged in.
If the growth doesn't slow, I will soon need to get myself a higher-bandwidth account and move the forum and everything else over to it.
Fortunately I was about to buy another account for unrelated and less demanding purposes, so maybe I can move this site over to a new account and use
this account for my smaller project. We'll see.
In any case, it's good to be back!
Organikum - 1-3-2005 at 03:30
It was cruel, these days of SCM withdrawal.
Puhhh!
I am still shivering, I had to take heaps of drugs to soothen me! I hope now I will recover slowly..... 
And, no, offline surfing isnt the real thing - its like beer without alcohol.
sniff
/ORG
Joeychemist - 1-3-2005 at 07:30
Thankfully that’s over with now. 
I didn’t quite know what to do with myself without Sciencemadness around.
PainKilla - 1-3-2005 at 10:41
Why dont you put some sort of donate link, I am sure some members would contribute,as would I.
cyclonite4 - 1-3-2005 at 19:10
Seems we all have an addiction to the drug called science, kindly provided by this forum.
I was also left without anything to do without good 'ol MSDB.
Thank god it's up again.
Trouble brewing, again
Polverone - 14-3-2005 at 21:59
While we were doing fine at the beginning of the month, 7/10 gigabytes of bandwidth have now been used. I suspect that we are victims of a low-grade
denial of service attack designed to exhaust our bandwidth.
In the server logs I found 3 IPs that were downloading suspiciously large amounts of content. The first, from Mexico, has downloaded 2.8 GB. This is
far in excess of what is needed to download everything on this site. The second, from Finland, has downloaded 384 MB. Maybe they're just trying
to copy the entire board. The third, from Brazil, has downloaded 1.25 GB. All 3 are getting IP banned. Those 3 users have used nearly half of the
site's entire bandwidth allocation for the month. Of course, that's assuming that there really are 3 separate users doing this and
they're not just proxies for the real bandwidth-hog.
I wonder if that nutjob "ChemicallyImbalanced" has anything to do with this. It's quite likely that we will suffer some downtime this
month.
I rejected a number of U2U offers for financial help in moving to more substantial hosting, but I might have to accept them now. I can't stand to
see the site overwhelmed this easily.
The_Gender_Changer - 15-3-2005 at 07:33
I have found two adresses
sciencemadness
and
atom.zip
Many post of me was deleted !
Fewable on the one adress
and deleted after posting.
It`s a forum virus (wannabe-police)
can be compensed with
pic`s to ftp !
Mephisto - 15-3-2005 at 11:16
Sounds like a try of DDoS-attack with three trojan-infected computers. Wonder who dislikes this board so much.
Could the hosting-firm keep an eye on the traffic or help somehow in this situation?