Consider backing it with S3.  Amazon gives you high reliability AND each 
file is also seeded as a torrent.

Johan Sørensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, debatem1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> We're making a Linux distro, and in addition to your SCM services
>> we're going to need a place to host the .iso- any chance that we could
>> do both here? Thanks for your time.
> 
> I have been thinking about some kind of binary dist/tarballs area for
> gitorious, nothing concrete yet however. The two biggest
> issues/questions I have (as I mull this over in my head) is a)
> bandwidth and b) uploading.
> 
> a) bandwidth is usually more expensive than diskspace. Thankfully git
> is very space efficient (and thus bandwidth efficient), ISO files less
> so. Maybe bittorrent is the answer here? That would allow other people
> to contribute space and bandwidth on a ad-hoc basis.
> 
> b) uploading a ~700meg image through HTTP sucks, both for the client
> and the webserver [software] receiving the data. Since we already to
> public-key auth on gitorious, allowing ssh uploads to  constrained
> area wouldn't be to hard (in fact, it sounds exactly like the
> description of a previous job I had a few years back)...
> 
> Funny enough, I got an email from a guy working within the biology
> research field wanting somewhere to store his (fairly large) databases
> earlier today. But yours and his projects sounds like a good cause,
> what's the smallest thing (to start with) we could build that would
> suit your needs?
> 
> Cheers,
> JS
> 
> > 


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