Saving Bandwidth

I took a look at the logs for the blog earlier and was surprised to find it gets rather a lot of hits these days. I then worked out how large the homepage is and ran the figures through a calculator. I suddenly realised my humble little blog must actually be eating a fair bit of bandwidth from nic-nac-project, the free shell provider on which the blog is living.

Because the project is currently looking to move to a new home they are addressing the issues of bandwidth and space usage. I don't use much space (about 2 MB) but I think I may have been eating at a fair old slice of the bandwidth. I've changed all that by making the default page show ONLY the latest blog. If you want to see more than just the default then you will need to use the archives.

Incidentally, when I get the time, I shall be compressing the archives into a .tgz file and making the blog decompress them on the fly. This will save a bit of space on the server (I've written in excess of 1.6 MB in under a year!) without too much compromise to the running of the blog.

Of course, nic-nac-project is just a temporary home. As much as I love it I'd like a more stable home, so when I get out of Uni I will strive to get some actual webhosting and a (memorable) domain name.