Generally speaking, I don't think it will be too big of a major concern space wise; after all, you can only ban so many people from a forum... Bandwidth for each forum admin would probably not be too much, perhaps at maximum of maybe 100 to 200K per section (IP and email) for each complete update. Perodical updates (IE: you've updated yesterday, and updating again tomorrow) maybe will just be a few kb's.
However, the server end / unified database would be slightly more troublesom. Disk space again wouldn't be a major deal; but depending on the popularity of the hack it may vary -- and I would like to think that if we pull this off, there may be quite a bit of admins that'd be interested in this. I'd say this wouldn't exceed much than a few GB a month though.
A problem I am foreseeing right now is that there is no such thing as 'cache' for something like this. And if the dump (list of IP/email address) is generated each time it is requested, it may be slightly heavier on the server. I currently have one idea in mind where the server end would utilize cron to curl the dump script and create a set of 'packages' for forum admins (to be more precise, our hack). Then that way they can get say daily digest or what not, and it'd be a static HTML based on the date the package is released. However, this becomes an issue where email spammers can grab list of email dump from this system directly and then privacy issues start to jump out... This is also why I am currently back on the drawing board and considering about email feeds and what not... In all cases, I am fairly clear on the IP part already, I think... If there are enough interest and we get everyone to pool in ideas etc. it'd be great help for sure.
Back to the drawing board
03-17-2005, 11:44 PM
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