For those curious:

I've been in touch with the folks at ibiblio, to ask about our
download stats for FreeDOS 1.1. They used to have a stats tool that
would let content owners view the number of downloads. However, this
was eventually removed, due to resource issues.

Instead, I've asked if they can provide some kind of estimate for the
number of times fd11src.iso has been downloaded. For example, if we
have access to network bandwidth data, we can compare the bandwidth
consumed per day before January 1, and the bandwidth each day January
1-8, and divide the difference by 39MB (the size of the ISO file.)
That's not a perfect number, but would be good enough.

Going forward, I've written a download tracker on the web site. When
you use the link on www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ to download the
FreeDOS 1.1 distro, your download will get logged so we can run stats
later. It isn't able to track torrent downloads, however.


Also:
The tracker tool has a simple load balancer built into it, where it
will redirect your download to the mirror site nearest to you (based
on your IP address.) Right now, only 2 of the mirror sites
(mirror.aarnet.edu.au and gd.tuwien.ac.at) have sync'd with us, so I
don't have the load balancer turned on. All downloads will pull from
ibiblio until we have a few more mirrors in the mix. If the other
mirrors (ftp.gwdg.de, sunsite.rediris.es and ftp.usf.edu) don't update
by next weekend, I'll just add the ones that we have.


-jh

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