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:
Code:
$ 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 -----
Code:
#!/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
Mirroring Graphs To Reduce Load
Originally Posted by Kacela
Hopefully it's just a temporary spike rather than something you'll be struggling with throughout the day.
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