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What is it?

It is an image that displays the online status of the schedulers of BOINC projects. When a projects is down or unreachable,
it is unessessary to hit the Update or Retry buttons in your BOINC client. Especially when a project has been down, there's
the risk of congestion as many try to manually connect to get more work. BOS can tell you if a project can be reached or not.

The image is intended to be placed on web sites. This way the knowledge of the schedulers online status gets spread thus
when a project is out the connection attempts should go down. If you can't reach it there's no need to try.

Not only that, it's also a nice service for your web site users.

How does it work?

On my computer I have some small scripts, one for each project, that tests the status of the schedulers every 5 minutes.
The result is then stored in a database.

The image retrieves the information from the database and displays it. This means, the image doesn't actually do any
testing of the schedulers. This has some advantages:

It keeps the traffic to the projects down
It makes the image faster to load

So you don't have to worry about adding to possible congestion everytime a user on your web site loads the page(s)
where you display the image.

Do I add to congestion?

Well, you would think so as I test every 5 minutes - but consider how many connection attempts this could save. In the
end I believe this little image could have a huge impact in saving connection attempts - if, that is, it's displayed widely.