Does Live Receiver count as a 'hit' on a website?

[MikeB]

I have an application that is run on multiple computers that receives data from live receiver based on a text file on my web server every 1 minute.

I am looking at my stats on my website, and I am wondering if doing this will increase my disk usage and total traffic on my site.

I am wondering if doing this over time will end up costing me money, by having to increase my disk usuage?

I was wondering if anyone may have an answer.

Thanks!

[SEELE]

It depends on the host, but it is probable that it will count as a 'hit'.


However if you are only transferring text files as you say, then the traffic cost's should be neglegable.

[Jeff]

Yes its going to be a request to your server everytime the text file is called from your application.

Will it cost you more? We don't know depends on your host.

Are we talking millions and millions of requests for this file a month? If not I wouldn't even sweat it.

[MikeB]

Thanks a lot!

[The_Alee]

Disk usage? Bandwidth more like.. And most hosts offer at least 1GB of bandwidth - That would probably be like 1,000,000,000 hits on a small text file :P