Speeding up get URL

[Mark Smith]

Very good point about doing it from a remote server - if the speed  
difference were great, then an hourly-paid Amazon EC2 server might be  
just the job...

Mark

On 4 Aug 2008, at 13:13, Alex Tweedly wrote:
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> If so, you might get a big improvement by converting the script  
> into a CGI script, and running it on your own web-hosting server;  
> that would give you an effective bandwidth based on the ISP, rather  
> than on a slow DSL-like connection. (I have a vaguely similar  
> script I run from my site that is approx 1000x
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