drwu-htmls infra · deploy cap fix · 2026-07-07

Moved chiron-10card MP4s to drwu-media, deploy cut 63%

The main dashboards project kept blowing the Vercel deploy cap because 24 chiron-tarot 10-card MP4s (~1.79 GB) were shipping with every deploy. They now live on drwu-media.vercel.app and the pages reference them there.

Deploy size, before and after

2862 MB

Total, before

1074 MB

Total, after

2049 MB

Video, before

261 MB

Video, after

1788 MB

Moved to media host

63%

Deploy shrink

What changed

Step	Change	Verified
1. deploy_media_mp4.py	New script (twin of deploy_media.py, scoped to chiron-sourceaudio--10card and .mp4). Streams bytes IN-PLACE from drwu-htmls/public.	1788 MB deployed to drwu-media, all sha-dedup hit, final state READY
2. rehost_mp4_srcs.py	New script rewrites every `src="/chiron-sourceaudio--10card/.mp4"` and `href="/chiron-sourceaudio--10card/.mp4"` to `https://drwu-media.vercel.app/…`. Writes .bak-pre-mp4-rehost sidecars per file.	64 HTML files touched, 87 refs rewritten
3. deploy_htmls_lean.py	Added `EXCLUDE_MP4_PREFIXES = ("chiron-sourceaudio-",)` with `"-10card/"` guard so non-10card mp4s still ship	Redeploy: 7057 files, 1074.5 MB, 3 blobs changed, READY
4. Cross-host verification	Curled the sample 10-card page and the drwu-media mp4 URL to confirm both are 200 and the src ref points at the correct external host	page 200, mp4 200, src="https://drwu-media.vercel.app/…"

The blocked / raised cap can come back down. Old note in deploy_htmls_lean.py said the cap was raised from 4600 → 5800 → 7000 MB. With the fix, the non-video content is 820 MB, safely under the original 4600 cap. Recommend dropping the current cap back to 4800 MB (line 122 if (total / 1e6 - mp4_mb) > 820) after a few clean deploys.

Files

New script: ~/Projects/drwu-media/deploy_media_mp4.py
New script: ~/Projects/drwu-htmls/scripts/rehost_mp4_srcs.py
Modified: ~/Projects/drwu-htmls/scripts/deploy_htmls_lean.py (EXCLUDE_MP4_PREFIXES)
Modified: ~/Projects/drwu-htmls/.vercelignore (added *.mp4 comment note; the deploy script's exclusion is what actually filters)
Media host root: https://drwu-media.vercel.app/
Sample re-hosted MP4: /chiron-sourceaudio-betrayed-you-for-money-10card/betrayed-you-for-money-10card_sourceaudio.mp4
Sample page whose player now streams from drwu-media: /chiron-sourceaudio-betrayed-you-for-money-10card/big-video.html

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Non-10card MP4 showcases (tarot readings, chiron 5-card versions, chiron-tarot-cards demos etc.) still ship with drwu-htmls. Roughly 261 MB. Same pattern can move them next when they start hurting cap headroom. The exclusion list uses a prefix match so extending it is one line each.
Cap reduction in the guard (line 122, currently 820 MB) not lowered. Recommend a 2-3-deploy soak before dropping it to give the caches time to settle.

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Deploy size, before and after

What changed

Files

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