[Shotimes] FordCDs.com Site Update-ATTN:Jon Heese

[clubairth@bellsouth.net]

Jon:
 Still no luck getting any messages to you.
If you can see this. I would like to send some stuff to you in the mail. If 
you e-mail me your shipping address I will send it over for you to look at.
.
.
Kevin



>>> FordCDs.com Site Update:
>>>
>>> For those of you interested in my recent post regarding publishing the 
>>> ALLDATA disc images (for service data on all makes and models 1982-2005) 
>>> on the site: rest assured that I am still working toward the cause, but 
>>> I have not yet found a working solution to make these disc images usable 
>>> by the public at large.
>>>
>>> On another note, the site has been gaining popularity by huge leaps and 
>>> bounds.  About a year ago, this originally>> to take advantage of some 
>>> unutilized bandwidth to my dedicated Linux server at ServerBeach.  As of 
>>> this month, traffic to and from FordCDs.com routinely fills the 10Mb/s 
>>> pipe to my server, slowing down the whole server (which I use for my 
>>> personal website, email, and BitTorrenting). Also, my server account is 
>>> limited to 2000GB/month of transfer, and at the current rate, I am 
>>> headed to use about 2300GB, meaning I'll have to pay an overage charge 
>>> of about 40% over my normal bill.  FYI: that comes to about 4600 CD .ISO 
>>> downloads per month...
>>>
>>> Now since I set up the PayPal donation account (about 6 months ago), 
>>> I've received about $50 in donations, and for that I'm very grateful. 
>>> Those of you who know me know that I'm not the type to beg or complain 
>>> about sponsorship; after all, no one forced me to take on this endeavor.
>>>
>>> So: I'm going to give it a month, watch my bandwidth numbers (taking the 
>>> site down as necessary to keep them under my limits), and probably 
>>> eventually post a poll to find out how useful these discs are to the 
>>> people downloading them.  In the end, I will likely either a) switch to 
>>> a 100% BitTorrent-based system, b) figure out some kind of "mandatory 
>>> donation" scheme so I'm not throwing away my server bandwidth for free, 
>>> or c) both.
>>>
>>> I will keep the lists posted on the changes.  Thanks for making this 
>>> project a success.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jon Heese