While it’s not official as such, I think this will bring much joy and hope to some people that I know very well. And as with any other time I mention Spaced: If you haven’t seen this amazing series yet, you’re a nut!
“Despite what certain national newspapers might have said, Series 2 is not the last series of Spaced. There will be a third series of Spaced – we just don’t know when.”
Mmmm, doesn’t that just warm your heart!? Kudos to Rikke for digging out this little nugget of gold.
Also, if you’re having problems with my RSS feed, could you leave a comment about it? I got word from from Tomas Jogin that it had a tendency to update all the time.
Which leads me to another little snippet. Bandwidth is being sucked at about 80 megs or so a day. With that rate I will meet the bandwidth limitation at some point next month. So I have taken the minor precaution of dropping the number of entries in the RSS feed from 10 to 5. And then I’ll see if I can’t compress some of the page elements better and see if that helps.
There is however something you can do. Something in my mind you should do regardless. Make sure you aren’t polling for RSS feed every minute, 5 minutes or 10 minutes. While the RSS feed is pure text, I get a lot of hits on it every day, and by now you should know that I don’t update every minute :)
Uglabug.
Since you need to conserve bandwidth, I thought I should ask if you’re using HTTP Compression?
Yeah I am. Mostly the bandwidth was sucked from me posting a 35MB trailer for Sam & Max 2. Thanks for the heads up though, I double-checked to be sure.
Don’t work in IE, though, does it?
Bjorn: Yes it does.
Re: Spaced, this is killer news!!! Cheers for the heads up. Geez, I hope Kubrick didn’t have anything to do with the “concept” of Season 3. That would suck.
Dude, don’t make me come over there and poke you in the eye!
Not my eye, I need those!
Also, I’m assuming your web server supports conditional GET? If so, smart RSS agents only waste about 200 bytes of bandwidth per get if the RSS hasn’t been updated. (Assuming WordPress actually supports it. Textpattern does.)
Stew, that’s a question for you.
I’m guessing spaced was put on hold while the people involved were making Shaun of the dead. Really hope that it comes back. Saw Simon Pegg being interviewed on Jonathan Ross and he said that he’d be up for another series, from which I read that there isn’t one being made at the moment. However, the possibility looks pretty good. Must get series 1 and 2 on DVD
WordPress does not currently support conditional GETs, so every hit on your RSS feed is downloading the whole thing. The Internet was designed better than this, but WordPress hasn’t caught up yet. I’ve discussed the matter with Michel and Matt and hopefully WP will properly support the appropriate HTTP status codes and headers in the next version. That should save a lot of bandwidth.