Jeff,

How large is the the overall site including PDFs?  Github provides a free account that allows for hosting a static website (which Freelance Traveller effectively is). If the entire site is under 2GB, then another option would be to set up Freelance Traveller there and just upload the files. That would likely also get around the bandwidth issues. You’d also effectively get version control for free.

Let me know off-list if you’d like to discuss that.

 Best regards,

Chuck

> On Jun 27, 2021, at 3:33 PM, Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 15:15:49 -0700, Charles McKnight
> <xxxxxx@pheonic.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> I”m not sure what amount of file storage you are looking at, but have you
>> considered contacting Archive.org <http://archive.org/>? They might in the
>> best spot to host/serve the files.
>
> This is an interesting idea, and worth pursuing. I am currently uploading
> all the PDFs to my Google Drive, and I have an offer from TJL to host them
> at the Wiki (though with no direct links - presumably, this is a limitation
> of the WikiWare); I certainly have no objection to additional sources.
>
> Right now, the total of both the US Letter/ANSI A and ISO A4 PDFs is just
> about 0.75 Gibibyte.
>
> (The hard part is going to be changing the links on the website...)
>
> I am willing to entertain any other offers of PDF hosting, and once I've
> made the Drive archive public, anyone is welcome to download the whole
> shebang and put it up somewhere. If you do so, however, I request that...
>
>     (a) ...you guarantee public read (not modify) access
>     (b) ...you let me know where you are posting them - I will happily
>         list you as a mirror
>
> I AM ALSO ASKING A FAVOR EFFECTIVE NOW: Other people have uploaded some
> previous issued to ScribeD. I have no objections to their availability
> there; however, I WOULD LIKE TO RESERVE THE PRIVILEGE OF SUCH UPLOADS TO
> MYSELF FOR ANY ISSUES, PAST, PRESENT, OR FUTURE, THAT ARE NOT ALREADY
> THERE. Part of this is so that I can keep track of which issues are in fact
> available on ScribeD; the other part is that ScribeD allows downloading in
> exchange for uploading, and while I think that that's a fair exchange, *I*
> am the one that's putting in the 'heavy' work of publication, and I don't
> think that it's unfair of me to want what few "material" benefits can be
> realized.
>
>
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