Mirroring Graphs To Reduce Load

[Ronin]

Everyone,

I remember on 11/5 ronpaulgraphs.com got hammered from everyone wanting to look at the charts. I propose people volunteer mirroring.

I wrote a simple script below that can be run on Unix or cygwin servers. This will download the daily graph every 5 minutes. Nothing fancy. I don't have a server at the moment that I can make public, but others feel free to use it. If you don't have wget you might try curl or lwp-download (perl).

Please reply with a reply with a URL if you mirror so everyone knows. I propose a sticky.

Commands to run:

$ nohup ./get_graph.sh &
$ exit

Keep in mind this will continue to run in the background until it is killed!! Leave out the nohup if you want it in the foreground.

------ script -----

#!/bin/bash

# edit globals to your liking

#PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

URL="http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com/yesterday_vs_today_line.png"
IMG=`basename $URL`
PUBLIC_HTML=/home/foobar/public_html
WGET="wget -q -O $IMG.$$ $URL"
CURL="curl -so $IMG.$$ $URL"

cd $PUBLIC_HTML

while [ 1 -eq 1 ]; do

        $WGET && mv $IMG.$$ $IMG || rm $IMG.$$ 2>/dev/null

        sleep 300
done

-- end

PS: Maybe someone could attach some html that will refresh this image every 5 minutes.

Edit: Added curl and error correction for wget/curl

[Dan D.]

Unfortunately, I think if I was to mirror, my poor site would use up all its bandwidth in an hour.

Great idea though, with some caveats:
More people have curl than wget installed, so you might want to provide a script for that.
Don't alter other people's paths, it's impolite. If a Unix admin is installing this, they know where their own curl or wget is (even if they don't know how to use it) and can modify the script accordingly.

[Kacela]

Don't forget http://paulcash.slact.net/ !

That's where I ended up going on 11/5 when http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com/ was overloaded...

[HelpRonPaulWin]

I have a small VPS I purchased to test things, I may try to get this up and running. THANKS!

[JacobLyles]

Don't forget http://paulcash.slact.net/ !

That's where I ended up going on 11/5 when http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com/ was overloaded...

Personally, I like paulcash better for monitoring one day's donations. I like ronpaulgraphs for looking at trends over time.

[picoligance]

I just added the official widget and paulcash mirror too. Can't be too safe

Mirror here: http://ronpaul.xnamatrix.com/

[amonasro]

You can also download the firefox extension widget to monitor the donations.

http://ok4ronpaul.ashlux.com/wiki/in...efox_Extension

[picoligance]

Hi, I've set up a mirror here: http://ronpaul.xnamatrix.com/

Got plenty of bandwidth to spare I used crontab instead of a script since I'm not sure if my host allows stray processes running around.

[paulforpaul]

I'm setting up a mirror right now.

Maybe we should let Dan know once we have a few mirrors ready so that he can do round-robin dns for the main domain name. I'll post an update when I have a url ready.

-Paul

[shell]

g'day. i'm the guy that runs paulcash. I've tested it through and through, and I'm 95% confident that i will have absolutely no trouble coping with the traffic.