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I'm pretty surprised Google didn't have the client download the images instead. Wouldn't that be a better solution or am I missing something here? Pretty interesting though and if this becomes a big enough story you can bet Google will be changing something; the last thing they need is someone using Google Docs to DOS websites.
This really underscores Amazon's glaring omission of a billing cutoff on Amazon web services. How hard would it be for them to let me say, cut off my services at $100/month? This is the main reason I'd never use AWS to host anything public.
This really underscores Amazon's glaring omission of a billing cutoff on Amazon web services. How hard would it be for them to let me say, cut off my services at $100/month? This is the main reason I'd never use AWS to host anything public.
But, why re-downloading every hour? Does merely having the spreadsheet passively open in a browser trigger that, or was some other process re-loading the spreadsheet every hour? (If the former, I wouldn't be as forgiving of Google. I understand the desire not to cache possibly-private data, but proper URL design and conditional GETs should be able to prevent the entire download on an automatic hourly schedule. And ev…
This really underscores Amazon's glaring omission of a billing cutoff on Amazon web services. How hard would it be for them to let me say, cut off my services at $100/month? This is the main reason I'd never use AWS to host anything public.
This really underscores Amazon's glaring omission of a billing cutoff on Amazon web services. How hard would it be for them to let me say, cut off my services at $100/month? This is the main reason I'd never use AWS to host anything public.
I'm pretty surprised Google didn't have the client download the images instead. Wouldn't that be a better solution or am I missing something here? Pretty interesting though and if this becomes a big enough story you can bet Google will be changing something; the last thing they need is someone using Google Docs to DOS websites.
Can you limit bandwidth with AWS? Also, why would the spreadsheet be calling these images every hour. Did you have the spreadsheet open? Does google do this call even when no one is viewing the spreadsheet?
You can put a robots.txt in the bucket.
I'm pretty surprised Google didn't have the client download the images instead. Wouldn't that be a better solution or am I missing something here? Pretty interesting though and if this becomes a big enough story you can bet Google will be changing something; the last thing they need is someone using Google Docs to DOS websites.
Perhaps the server needs to know the image dimensions for page layout.