Hi! Great idea when projects (or users) can bing on their own S3 account and bills. It would free gitorious.org a bit from hosting bill.
However I don't know how reliable it would be in long run. Cheers, Priit On Oct 17, 10:05 pm, nebajoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
