On Jul 20, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Christian Theune wrote: > Am Freitag, den 20.07.2007, 07:48 -0400 schrieb Jim Fulton: >> On Jul 20, 2007, at 6:02 AM, Christian Theune wrote: >> ... >>> I'd be happy to support mirroring once all this is sorted out/ I can >>> offer a server in Germany/Europe. >> >> If we decide that mirrors would be a good idea, it will be important, >> imo, to select mirror sites bases on their connectivity. The goal of >> the mirrors should be to try to give people options with short >> network distances. > > Right, however, do you have any specific parameters that can be > measured > in mind?
I'm not enough of a network expert. Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable will make a suggestion. BTW, with the current PyPI performance, I'm guessing we could have 10s of mirrors poll once a minute without affecting other users. > (Our server is reasonably well connected, reachable with about 5 hops > from within Germany with latency around 40ms on a DSL line. Multiple > GBit lines to the hosting center.) I didn't mean to suggest that you weren't well connected. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
