[ensembl-dev] running scripts over christmas

[Anne Parker]

Hi Andrea

The public databases are the responsibility of the web team. If you  
make sure you use ensembldb.ensembl.org, which is intended for this  
type of usage, and keep an eye on your script, I'm sure it will be  
fine. When we IP-ban people it's generally because they're screen- 
scraping the website or otherwise scripting against it, which prevents  
legitimate use by people wanting to browse the pages.

Cheers

Anne


On 22 Dec 2010, at 09:37, Will McLaren wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
>
> The database servers are not really my area; I have included the  
> ensembl dev list on this reply in case someone who knows better is  
> still around.
>
> I'm also on holiday now, as I think are many of the Ensembl team!
>
> Cheers and Merry Christmas
>
> Will
>
> On 22 December 2010 03:28, Andrea Edwards <edwardsa at cs.man.ac.uk>  
> wrote:
> Dear Will
>
> How are you? I hope you are well. I sent this email to Fiona  
> Cunningham and she is away for the Christmas break now so I was  
> hoping you might be able to help.
>
> I was wondering if I might be allowed to run a script against the  
> ensembl human variation database over the christmas weekend (e.g.  
> from Christmas even pm until Tues 28th). I imagine the load on the  
> ensembl servers will be low over this period and so I am hoping that  
> my request might be acceptable. I am always conscious of running  
> long scripts in case my IP address (and that of the whole  
> university!) is blocked.
>
> Kind regards (and Merry Christmas!)
> andrea
>
>
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Anne Parker
Ensembl Web Production Manager
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