ChZ "Laura Veirs @ The Magic Stick 5/9/07"

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http://www.youtube.com/user/rofthorax

(02/02/10) Well I bought another two years of virtual server hosting, so 
chann3lz will be up for two more years. It costs me about 300 a year. But 
if I outgrow it, say I get 20,000-30,000 people per hour, then I will have to
get another server or something dedicated.. Maybe not.. I'd just figure out
someway to distribute the load. Good thing I figured out my bottleneck was 
my ISP and not godaddy.. So I feel more confident now..

(01/28/10) I've determined that the problem is probably on my end.. And 
so I put the software back up.. Hopefully it will fix itself whatever it is. 
But the down side is I accidently wiped the main channel.. And I didn't back
it up in the last couple of months, so everything is back the way it was in
October.. Really sorry about that, but I mistaked the best stuff channel 
for the sessions database, and saw a cardinality of 9000 and thought that 
to be 9000 sessions, and I was looking at the wrong table. I erased it, then 
realized I was not looking at the sessions table.. But after my error I 
backedup the rest of the database.. However I replaced it all with what was 
there in october, so that really didn't help..  Man today was just shit. I'm 
going to go play some multiplayer game to take my mind off it.. Maybe I can 
plan what the next step will be.

(01/28/10) The server load is crazy on chann3lz, I'm going to have to figure
out a way to fix it, until then, I may add a feature to it that will 
force a delay until the number of forked apache processes returns to something
normal. When I found it unable to do anything, the load was about 53 of those
processes.. And it seems to do well at under 20.. That probably means about 20
people are hitting the server at once and apache (the web server) has to
answer the requests of 20.. If I have 50 hitting the server at once, then the
server gets hosed.. So I'm going to have to add in a feature that pops in a
redirect with a random delay until the load drops below 20.. Sorry about this,
but I guess chann3lz is too popular.. I'd like to find a way to load balance
this.. I was thinking about using the mysql database servers on my cloud
computing account, and see if I could distribute the load that way. I'm also
reading about a way to use threads with Apache, with a MPM module, that may
fix things..

(01/08/10) I figured out why on channels like the 70s and such, that the
played count never seems to increase. This is my theory because I haven't
investigated the code, but I think that when a random video code is selected, 
another query of the video code reveals that the video no longer exists, 
so chann3lz has to immediately find another video to substitute. You can
verify this by running your mouse over the "bookmark this" link and comparing
the code there with the one in the address bar.. If they are different, that
means the code that was attempted was no longer available. I Think the new 
video is an attempt to replace the video or something, and it drops back 
the play count. Okay I really don't know why, but that's the theory.

(11/30/09) I fixed it so that links to videos on chann3lz will show up in 
facebook correctly (as youtube links do). I also made a number of changes 
to the page, to reduce the clutter.

(11/29/09)
Chann3lz is going through changes as a result of a transition to the 
new Youtube API. The bookmarklets have been mostly updated to use no category 
in searches, so you are guaranteed results. The categories are bogus in the
new youtube API, pretty much, so I may remove the categorization menu selector 
in the search page altogether. Searches are a bit slower, I don't know if it
will get fixed. I reset at 100 videos left in the pool, instead of 0, cause 
near zero there seems to be an anomaly in the code that keeps it from ever
really reseting. One day the server was hosed, so I'm trying to prevent that
from occuring again. The HD support is superficial, the Youtube API 
contains nothing it in to permit me to tell if a video has HD content or 
not, but I can "wire on" the HD ability, so that's all the "[HD]" button does. 
The "[HQ]" button does the same thing, but wires on HQ mode, which is just a 
higher quality video format. Buttons [Lo][Med][Hi] just selection the quality 
setting of the flash player, the video content doesn't actually change. I'm 
working on a remote control feature that I hope will permit one to control 
chann3lz on a remote computer from another computer, so as to say skip a
video without having to walk over and change the video, it also may permit 
multiple people to control the screen.. IT's a thought..

(* Reason for "Prolong End" *)
It's to permit those who contribute videos to have a greater chance of 
seeing their videos, so they will contribute more, by keeping the pool 
short, that means there is a greater chance that they will see a video 
they just added. It also permits one to see newer videos the minute they 
are added to the pool, because as the pool nears completion (to be reset) 
the greater the chances of someone seeing a video that was just added. 
It's just the nature of the program. How it works, when you have "prolong 
end" on (golden orange), everytime you see a video, chann3lz takes a video 
from the "played" section and adds it back to the "unplayed" section. 
So there is a greater chance you will see a video you had already seen, 
but it's necessary to prolong completion.

(8/8/09) I traced two ip's coming from India, while this could be a legitimate
user, the user added hundreds of videos in a matter of seconds, this could be
a spider (search engines use these to create search vectors, when a search
engine crawls my site it comes out that videos from one channel get added to
the best stuff channel). So I banned this user, but contact me if I was
mistaken. There was a crawler from Japan, so I banned that one outright. I
reverted the japan crawlers submissions, I also reverted part of the
submissions of the india user, but kept the ones that looked good (obviously
added from the 80s channel).. Okay so I biased the channel, so what, it's my
site.. It was only 56 videos.. If you think I should revert those, contact 
me at rofthorax@gmail.com .

(11/30/09) I fixed it so that chann3lz links will show up in facebook correctly.