Comments on: Burning my feeds http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/2007/04/05/burning-my-feeds/ Manchester is in the house Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:15:08 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: djcruze http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/2007/04/05/burning-my-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-31545 djcruze Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:17:36 +0000 http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/?p=315#comment-31545 No problems man. Was great to see you at the weekend. No problems man. Was great to see you at the weekend.

]]> By: Cee http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/2007/04/05/burning-my-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-31277 Cee Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:35:29 +0000 http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/?p=315#comment-31277 Got it. Thanks! *thumbsup* ;-) Uuh - it's Saturday already! Thanks for "I’ll stick you on the guestlist.". Great. CU T. Got it. Thanks! *thumbsup* ;-)

Uuh – it’s Saturday already! Thanks for “I’ll stick you on the guestlist.”. Great.

CU
T.

]]> By: djcruze http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/2007/04/05/burning-my-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-31230 djcruze Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:32:43 +0000 http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/?p=315#comment-31230 Ok mate here's why I've done it. My podcast RSS feed gets absolutely hammered by iTunes clients. It probably has about 25 hits every couple of minutes. Although the podcast RSS file is pretty small (under 100k) it gets downloaded by the iTunes client to see if anything has changed. This increases the bandwidth that my site uses. As the RSS feed is generated by Wordpress, the CPU usage to constantly generate an RSS feed is quite large which my hosting provider doesn't like (as it's a shared host). Although the feed is cached, it still gets regenerated every now and again. So now I've redirected it to FeedBurner it means that their servers get hammered and not mine. I only get asked for the podcast RSS feed once an hour from FeedBurner and FeedBurner now gets asked 25 times every couple of minutes instead. Their infrastructure is better suited to feeding the amount of traffic I get than my shared hosting is. Hope that clears it up! See you on Saturday. I'll stick you on the guestlist. Ok mate here’s why I’ve done it.

My podcast RSS feed gets absolutely hammered by iTunes clients. It probably has about 25 hits every couple of minutes. Although the podcast RSS file is pretty small (under 100k) it gets downloaded by the iTunes client to see if anything has changed. This increases the bandwidth that my site uses. As the RSS feed is generated by Wordpress, the CPU usage to constantly generate an RSS feed is quite large which my hosting provider doesn’t like (as it’s a shared host). Although the feed is cached, it still gets regenerated every now and again.

So now I’ve redirected it to FeedBurner it means that their servers get hammered and not mine. I only get asked for the podcast RSS feed once an hour from FeedBurner and FeedBurner now gets asked 25 times every couple of minutes instead. Their infrastructure is better suited to feeding the amount of traffic I get than my shared hosting is.

Hope that clears it up!

See you on Saturday. I’ll stick you on the guestlist.

]]> By: Cee http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/2007/04/05/burning-my-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-30928 Cee Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:17:49 +0000 http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/?p=315#comment-30928 hmpf, I didn't get it although I've read your post twice and also checked the feedburner website. What excactly is the advantage? I mean, your feed-URL is still the same so the traffic is also going via your server? Or did the feed-URl change? Can you "enlight" Ceelight. ;-) See you Saturday! Cheers Mate hmpf, I didn’t get it although I’ve read your post twice and also checked the feedburner website. What excactly is the advantage? I mean, your feed-URL is still the same so the traffic is also going via your server? Or did the feed-URl change?

Can you “enlight” Ceelight. ;-)

See you Saturday!

Cheers Mate

]]> By: djcruze http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/2007/04/05/burning-my-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-30680 djcruze Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:18:58 +0000 http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/?p=315#comment-30680 Andy - Nice one mate. The vocalist I'm working with on my new tune is a good friend of Jay's so I'll try and get a copy of it. Si - Yeah, I can probably do that now. I'll sort it out. The reason I stopped it from displaying only a few items is because I was getting hammered for 10GB of bandwidth per month from the podcast RSS feed alone. That obviously didn't make my webhost very happy! Andy – Nice one mate. The vocalist I’m working with on my new tune is a good friend of Jay’s so I’ll try and get a copy of it.

Si – Yeah, I can probably do that now. I’ll sort it out. The reason I stopped it from displaying only a few items is because I was getting hammered for 10GB of bandwidth per month from the podcast RSS feed alone. That obviously didn’t make my webhost very happy!

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