It’s been coming down the pike.

I’ve been well aware of how my tools have become widely utilized. This has become a bit of a problem, as my excellent virtualhost provider allows a total of five gigs of transfer a month. Not so bad?

Well, since several of my tools have hit VersionTracker, I’ve been doing an average of a gig’s worth of traffic a day. This, as they say in the business, is not good.

I had to find a way to distribute this influx.

I run several services, as well as my personal website – not only do they have quite a bit of space by comparison (the majority of my traffic and storage there is SQL based) – they rarely come near their bandwidth utilization.

I hacked up support in my filemanager to allow for mirror sites to be listed in my global configuration, then opted to expand it after I had the initial frameworks laid out.

My initial revision allowed for a single mirror – it would continue to update my local download counter (as it should), for any file downloaded, then “hand off” the request to the sister site.

In an effort to increase my functionale, I then created a pseudo-random ‘site chooser’, entirely transparent to the client, which makes an educated guess as to which of my mirrors to use.

Hopefully this will save me from paying a fortune for my bandwidth, and be able to provide end users with the tools they seek!