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[Erik Ramey]

First off, let me start off by telling everybody that the AutoPatcher project is alive and well. Along with the AutoPatcher comes AutoPatcher Updater aka APUP which will download all modules from our web server and all updates directly from Microsoft. We are still working out the bugs within APUP so please be patient with the development phase. For more information, known bugs, and a download link, check out the forums!

See the Anouncements thread for the link to APUP.

With all that said, time to give everybody some bad news. For the month of January, we have almost reached our download cap. For this reason, there won’t be any new updates until February. Additionally until we work something out, Java and the additional wallpaper included within the Extra’s Addon Pack won’t be included (a lesson learned by yours truly)

[DesertJerry]

February is only a week away and after all the excellent work being done around here who can complain about the wait?

[ap.500words.ca]

DesertJerry, on Jan 25 2008, 04:41 AM, said:

February is only a week away and after all the excellent work being done around here who can complain about the wait?

Exactely! I wonder if any of us with extra server bandwidth might be able to help?

[MenageZer0]

nice to hear that the project is going, and going well

ps: when the maxium download size per month allowed on the server hosting apup is reached, if there would be an update to post, could uploading it on something like http://rapidshare.com/ be considered ?

Edited by MenageZer0, 26 January 2008 - 11:55 AM.

[M2Ys4U]

MenageZer0, on Jan 26 2008, 11:54 AM, said:

nice to hear that the project is going, and going well

ps: when the maxium download size per month allowed on the server hosting apup is reached, if there would be an update to post, could uploading it on something like http://rapidshare.com/ be considered ?

It's not the actual apup program that's the problem, it's the fact that apup downloads files from AutoPatcher's server.

[MenageZer0]

M2Ys4U, on Jan 26 2008, 07:41 PM, said:

It's not the actual apup program that's the problem, it's the fact that apup downloads files from AutoPatcher's server.

yes, of course, i stupidly forgot it while i posted the previous message.

but, so, once the download cap is reached, no package (regardless it being older or newer) at all will be downloadable throught apup until the next month begin, will it ?

[M2Ys4U]

That is correct, unless the team either rent more data transfer capacity, more servers or allow the download to be distributed.

[Prab]

I have about 4.5GB of bandwidth per month I can donate. Would this be of any use? I can put any files you need there and give you a permalink.

[Cyrus]

Preb, I think they are looking for 100GB+, because 4.5GB of bandwidth goes VERY quickly.

[M2Ys4U]

The old AutoPatcher mirrors used to suck up TB of bandwidth per month. Granted, the MS patches aren't included now, but the scripts, APMs and non-MS items will stil suck up a fair bit.

[Prab]

Ok, I guess I didn't realize how popular it was. Good luck finding more bandwidth. Just 4 days until February.

[ViroMan]

Can't we just suck the updates from the Microsoft servers?

[Prab]

It already does for microsoft updates, but autopatcher itself is hosted here. I also think they tried hosting Java and some other updates, but don't hold me to that. I imagine APUP hits microsoft's servers with more than 90% the load.

[M2Ys4U]

ViroMan, on Jan 29 2008, 02:58 AM, said:

Can't we just suck the updates from the Microsoft servers?

The actual updates themselves come from the Microsoft servers, but the information on how to use the updates, when to use those updates and other third-party modules, such as Java, Shockwave, registry tweaks etc. are hosted at autopatcher.com

[gregg]

I have 10832gig/month (10tb) of transfer and 500gigs of storage with ftp/http access if you guys need the help and can use it just email me.

Edited by gregg, 29 January 2008 - 06:22 PM.

[Erik Ramey]

Thanks for the offer gregg. Right now I'm talking to Antonis on creating a mirror system with APUP that could spread the load amoung a number of mirrors. Until something like this is implemented, I don't want to "bang" any one server with the larger downloads. I'll keep you in mind =)

[gregg]

Erik Ramey, on Jan 29 2008, 02:54 PM, said:

Thanks for the offer gregg. Right now I'm talking to Antonis on creating a mirror system with APUP that could spread the load amoung a number of mirrors. Until something like this is implemented, I don't want to "bang" any one server with the larger downloads. I'll keep you in mind =)

No prob. Its there if you need it. On average I dont even use 1tb of the transfer.

[the_guy]

Why don't you also get the other files (non-regtweaks) from the company's server (ie. get Java from Sun, Flash and Shockwave from Adobe, etc.)

the_guy

[James]

@the_guy

Adobe/Macromedia downloads are obviously do-able, but how do you cope with Sun's download system, control tickets and all, that seems to do everything possible to prevent a stable, repeatable, download location?

I think this is Erik's problem too -- and he's not alone!
--
James

[Erik Ramey]

James is correct. Sun has some kind of "random token system" which a random hash is created everytime you download from their servers. Because of this, any type of static download URL will always fail since the "download link" always changes.