Thanks Patrick, This is great. We need to figure out some kind of automatic mirroring system now - Nextgens - any ideas?
Ian. On 26 Jan 2006, at 12:29, Patrick Meade wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: >> 100GB/month, with about 3MB per download - means we can support about >> 1,000 downloads per-day within our bandwidth limit. >> >> Basically, what we need are volunteers for mirroring - we could >> set up >> an automatic mirroring system, where we have a list of mirrors, and >> downloads.freenetproject.org will do a round-robin between them. >> Also, >> downloads.freenetproject.org will automatically ssh into each of the >> mirrors whenever a new file becomes available to upload them over >> scp. > > Ian, > > I've got a Comp Sci Alumni account at UW-Madison. Madison hosts Linux > ISOs, Debian package archives, and other high volume stuff. I doubt > they'll begrudge me 3MB, even if I get 5,000 downloads/day. > > According to: > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/twiki/bin/view/CSDocs/CSLAccountPolicy > > # Appropriate Uses: > > * These include research, instruction, scholarly communication and > administration involving UW-Madison faculty, staff and students. Any > activities in support of the above are also allowed. > > I'm not a lawyer, but I think I can sell the "activities in support of > research" angle of Freenet to anybody who asks. > > Let me know what you think. > > Patrick Meade > meade at cs.wisc.edu > > PS>I'm on Tech but not Devl. Use Tech list or e-mail me directly if > you > need me to see the response. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
