On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jules Bean wrote: > Storage is cheap, and getting cheaper all the time. I would have > thought that, for the typical debian mirror provider, of the two > resources they are donating, bandwidth is fairly likely to be the more > expensive.
You misunderstand the dynamics of mirror donations, bandwidth is usually free, hardware costs and would have to be paid for often by a non-commercial entity. Plus you don't run cheap hardware on most of our mirrors, 40G of space is not cheap when you start talking RAID and all. Jason
