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What are your High Volume and Low volume times?

Submitted by Jedikko on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 15:48

Hi,

I am thinking about getting my updates
done with a cron job.

If I do that then I can time it to coincide
with your low volume hours.

Although I would only have about a thousand
requests ( hopefully fetches ) I guess that
it will still be beneficial to yourselves
and improve the speed for me as well.

So which are the high traffic hours that I
should avoid and the Low traffic hours that you
would prefer me to use ?

Also please tell me what time zone you mean.
Thanks.
Wed, 03/30/2011 - 16:04
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It is not necessary to get that granular about timing. Just don't check back for the pending images more than 1min, then 5min, 30min, hour, etc.

The reasons are:

1. We have a lot of users all over the world, so there is no real low volume periods

2. Unless you are talking about 10,000 new requests per hour or more; it won't really make a difference. In that case, you would have generators to handle the load, so it still wouldn't make a difference to other users.

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