[swinog] Fwd: mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-23 Diskussionsfäden Fredy Kuenzler
Update: PCTipp made the news public to a broader audience and established the hashtag: #SaveSwitchMirror http://m.pctipp.ch/news/artikel/nach-jahrzehnten-switch-schaltet-mirror-services-ab-90387/ -- Fredy Kuenzler Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd. Technoparkstrasse 5 CH-8406 Winterthur Switzerland

[swinog] Swinog-BE167 - Beer Event 167 @ Kings Cave / ZH

2018-08-23 Diskussionsfäden Viktor Steinmann
Dear SwiNOGers, After the bad news about the end of the SWITCH mirror, everyone needs some good news. Let's have some beer and food. And because of its central (pun intended) location, we're again descending into the cave. The King's Cave. Details for the next event:

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-23 Diskussionsfäden Claudio Luck
Hi On 23.08.18 10:37, Manuel Wenger wrote: > Thank you Fredy for pointing this out. It's really a pity SWITCHmirror is > shutting down. > > We are also interested in understanding what would be involved in keeping > such a mirror alive, especially from a storage and bandwidth perspective. > >

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-23 Diskussionsfäden Manuel Wenger
Thank you Fredy for pointing this out. It's really a pity SWITCHmirror is shutting down. We are also interested in understanding what would be involved in keeping such a mirror alive, especially from a storage and bandwidth perspective. Could someone from Switch please comment? It'd be highly

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-23 Diskussionsfäden Viktor Steinmann
Thanks for bringing this to our attention Fredy. Most of us would have missed it probably. It's a pity, they're shutting down this service. This has been an institution. Reliable and trusted. Unfortunately, there is no real explanation, why they're discontinuing the service. Care to