I'd want to know how to make apache serve pages like it's being served on a .01bps connection.

Or, reccemend any other server that can be made to do this.

I'd like to do this so it seems like it's being served off an ancient computer thats 1.5mhz

Think it's an interesting project for you guru's ;-)

Any specific reason or just to do it?

How about serving it off of a dial up using a 14.4k modem?

Not too hard to do that now is it?

You could also just toss in some huge bmp background image, make it the same color as the background so it's not even appearing to load, and it will seem as if it's just taking a long time to finish loading...

Honestly though, I don't wanna give you any real tactics as this truly sounds malicious as it could have no 'real' value that I'm aware of...

Cool

Well... to be honest... I have a site up at http://www.ne2600.org/webserver.php (claims to be a TRS 80 tandy 2.4mhz) (this is going to load slow, as you'll read below and find out why

and I want the website to actually load slowly (like the current site is.... what we've done is killed the server with tons of useless processes and we're also hosting voicechat on it which kills the connection too)

But, this renders the system useless.... I mean, gnome is locked up for instance... can't even move the mouse... (it seems to make apache give the slow effect though!)


I don't wanna do this to the proccessor though, i mean it cant be good for the system itself... and plus, I'm wasting a perfectly good system!


I figured there is a home brewed webserver out there that allows you to configure the speed it is sent to the user or something.


This is not malitious in any way. It's a joke... and it's just a project me and my friends have been doing for a while now.

I'd much rather limit the webserver itself rather than put a crappy modem on it or something.. (plus i'm on dsl)

Thanks for the imput

lol, man I love it!

check out this. I think it might be exactly what you need


Especially I'm looking at the "BW_tx2cred_rate: sets the maximum rate of serving bytes (bytes/second)." business.

EDIT: or maybe mod_throttle?

Hey I had another idea. You're using a dynamic language. Fool around some and I bet you could get a way for it to serve up partial pages with a nice CARRIER LOST at the end and make the user hit reload a couple times(use cookies to detect how many reloads) before the full site actually comes through....

ok, I think it's my bedtime now.

Just checked out your site

mod_throttle certainly sounds like it'd be what you want, but will it actually work/fit on that box?

I still am leaning towards the 14.4k though, you could rig up something on a local lan to only output at 14.4 k I would think (though I wouldn't know how).

I'll poke around and see if anything that tiny and pretty much self-capable exists.

Cool

OK, its not an issue man... I have all the space and processing power I need. its hard to explain, but trust me...

so limitations aren't an issue.

(edit)
OK I'm installing mod throttle, see if this can do what i'm looking for, will get back to the thread soon

I think i'm going to use the dynamic carrior loss idea with php.

Any detailed ideas on how to do this, I'm not too good with php

If you email the site source to gantrep@yahoo.com I'll take a look at it.

I have to say though, while I think the "hosted on a TRS-80" idea is funny, I don't understand the purpose of your site. 2600 magazine HAS a site already....