Legacy Update Help
Am I using up all your bandwidth when I use this?
Not at all, please feel free to install as many updates as you like. The updates themselves come directly from Microsoft servers. The website of course is hosted on my server, but employs Cloudflare edge caching, so you’re in fact rarely sending traffic to my actual server.
When you check for updates on Windows 2000, XP, or Vista, the Windows Update protocol traffic is proxied through my server, so that it can be downgraded from modern encryption to something old Windows can understand. All the server currently does is pass through exactly what your machine, or the Microsoft server, sends, with no processing beyond that. This traffic isn’t small, but it’s also not really big enough for me to be concerned about either. It’s well below the monthly bandwidth limit I’m allocated by my host.
You can, of course, consider leaving a tip on Ko-fi, GitHub Sponsors, or Patreon to help me pay for the server costs - I won’t say no to some extra support and motivation!