EGTB sharing - new plan

[jkominek]

So they weren't willing to live up to their promise of "1,500 Gigabyte Hosting Space" and "15,000 GIGS of Transfer"? I wonder what loophole was used to cut you off.

jk

[Kirill Kryukov]

They have following fine print in the terms of service: "Bluehost Web Hosting intends to offer services to host web sites, not store data. Using an account primarily as an online storage space for archiving electronic files is prohibited." where it goes together with hacking, spamming, child pornography and "other illegal activities". Of course this makes their claim of 1.5 TB of storage totally useless, not to mention 15 TB of transfer. Proves one extra time that no one is better hosting than your own self.

[gambit3]

just a thought, and may be an impracticeable - is it possible to add links to these online files through emule, in much the same way as usenet does? this would have the dual effect of having a standing emule server as well as the web hosted files... perhaps this is a question someone may wish to take up with the web host if no one has an (easy to implement) answer... since everyone else seems to have strayed WAY off topic. if so, perhaps it is worth considering services such as drivex. admittedly drivex is commercial, but it doesn't cost nothing to generate or even download these tables, so why not have them safely stored on a server somewhere as well as in your own machine, if possible.
as a further thought and an offshoot of the first - since at least a couple of you seem to have such server-grade machines for generating late-6/early-7 man nalimovs (fegs only require 900M for 6 man and 1500 for 7 man tables, plus drive space), why not run your servers as a business (if they are not already) and use the extra bandwidth/storage/idle cpu cycles for your table generation and distribution.

lastly, but off topic, i have found that ending tables are of only dubious benefit if using a modern chess engine at tournament times with reasonable modern home entry-level machines (such as quad core intel chips running with 2 G RAM) UNLESS they fit into the size of the table cache you tell the machine it is allowed to use. that is to say: it is not the downloading or generating of these tables which is the problem when it comes to egtbs of ANY format: it is the ability to use them. most people have enough ram to dedicate the 34M needed for the 4 man tables to be in ram in a tournament, but not all have the 7.45G needed for the 5 manners. 6+ man sets only come into their own in analysis, in my experience.