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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gitorious" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gitorious?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
