Which resources are being hit the hardest? Outgoing bandwidth? On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:51:45 AM UTC+2, Torsten Becker wrote: > > Hi, > > since two years I’m running a blog at GAE focusing the Arctic and as an > unique feature a Google Map with daily high resolution Arctic satellite > images from NASA was included. The NASA images need to be tiled, cached and > served and this process runs on GAE, too. > > Usually interest is low during dark Arctic Winter and rises in September > the time sea ice reaches its minimum extent. No problem so far with the > free quota on outgoing bandwidth. > > This year is different: Latest Arctic storm reduced sea ice extent by a > million square kilometers in a week and public interest was so high free > quota was exhausted 5 hours after reset. > > Now - end of August - it is absolutely clear that this year will or has > already broke all records in terms of sea ice minimum and makes a major > step direction ice free-ness. When in a few years the Arctic lacks sea ice > completely in September, it will change weather pattern all over the > northern hemisphere - one explanation of accelerating public interests. > > I’d like to mention the project is ad free and totally beyond any economic > interests. All I want is to keep it running and give everybody on the > planet the chance to see with his own eyes how dramatic the situation in > the Arctic is. True color satellite images are free of interpretation and > do not lead to discussions whether there is sea ice or not. > > Here is the thing: If I enable billing to satisfy the need for pure > information I’m bankrupt next month. If not 99% of the users are going to > see nothing, get frustrated and possibly never come back. > > So my best option is to close the site now. > > What do you think? > > -- Torsten >
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