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Hints on keeping up with the hints...
I'd love to, but ... even though they're tiny, the problem is that the RSS clients ask for new files very very often -- the logs literally show requests from the same IP number several times a minute for days at a time. If there were some standard that could be enforced, I wouldn't mind going to a larger number of hints. But I'm a bit afraid what might happen to the machine if I 2x or 3x the RSS feed size -- it's already the most-hit page on the site.
Reducing bandwidth charges
How about a separate feed with just the latest 50 or 100 headlines, without excerpts instead, or in addition to the existing one? Anyway, there are plenty of techniques you can use to reduce bandwidth for both HTML and RSS files. Some of these require the RSS feed reader to support the technology too, but I think most of them have been pretty good at keeping up. Here's a proposition, Rob: if you can use any of these suggestions to save more than 15% in bandwidth, how about giving us a better RSS feed?
I'm not an expert, but send me an email and I'll be glad to give you advice about this stuff. PS: I got the headers using "curl -i http://www.macosxhints.com/backend/geeklog.rdf" in the terminal.
Hints on keeping up with the hints...
One more point to keep in mind: an RSS feed will be saving bandwidth by reducing home page hits, and not wasting it. When you get etags working right, my RSS reader will only be downloading the whole 22 kB feed once whenever it's updated (normally once per day?). Without a good RSS feed, I'd be hitting the home page and downloading 60 kB+ of HTML, several times per day, plus images, CSS and javascript. The better quality your feed, the more people will use it and the more bandwidth you will save. It may even be worth experimenting with different feeds (e.g. titles only, short excerpts, full text, feeds for comment threads). PS: found a list of feed readers that support etags. |
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