<<From our logs, I'm seeing an average download time of around 195 secs for
the ElevateDB Additional Software and Utilities (14MB).  Not great, but not
bad (70KB per second), and this includes a lot of apparently really-bad
connections that take a long time to download.>>

For me personally, it wouldn't worry me if it took 4 times that long. It's not like I download it every day, and I sit there waiting to implement it the second that it finishes downloading.  Waiting a few minutes isn't going to kill me - I have a wife for that.

Steve

Steve


> Waiting a few minutes isn't going to kill me - I have a wife for that.

Obviously not very skill then - you're still posting - ask her if she'd like a training session?

Roy Lambert

Tim,

>  From our logs, I'm seeing an average download time of around 195 secs
> for the ElevateDB Additional Software and Utilities (14MB).  Not great,
> but not bad (70KB per second), and this includes a lot of apparently
> really-bad connections that take a long time to download.

Not bad at all.
I don't complain, it was just an information for you.

Uli

Raul,

<< Main question is whether you think it would benefit the business and is
it worthwhile spending your time coding the website (instead of coding
EDB/DBISAM).  I'm sure most of us can live just fine with the 5 minute
download for new release + addl tools every now and then.

The cost we found to be cheap  - it's basically $0.15 to store 1GB per month
and same for 1GB of transfer. You'd have to estimate how many customers
would download the product. Assuming most of your customers download approx
100MB a month (release for few different environments) and you have 1000 of
them it would be approx $15 per month as an estimate. >>

Yeah, I figured that it would be cheap, but I wanted to make sure about the
transfer costs based upon our actual download logs for a few months.

<< If you do decide to go ahead then let me know - I've written a command
line utility for managing S3 and uploads that can easily be added to
automated build process (or batch file). >>

Cool, that would be great, thanks.  You're making this very easy.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Hi Roy,

<< Obviously not very skill then - you're still posting - ask her if she'd like a training session? >>

She told me she missed me the other day.  I thought "That's nice".  Then I realised what she really meant...

Steve