On 21 October 2010 10:25, Peter Odding <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can anyone indicate how big the main LR repo is in megabytes? I host my
> website and e-mail on a VPS (located in the Netherlands) with a 10 GB
> virtual disk of which 3 GB is currently in use. If the mirror doesn't take
> too much disk space and is only used as a fall back [3] when the main repo
> is offline I would definitely consider hosting it...

Another good question is the amount of bandwidth currently used for
rock downloads. I'd guess fairly low meaning it wouldn't be too
expensive to host on on something like Amazon Cloudfront. That said,
lots of people have VPSes with spare space and bandwidth and it could
be relatively easy to set up mirrors. Furthermore, the main luarocks
site seems plenty fast so I suppose a mirror would be most important
for failover rather than speed.

Security is a concern though (and of course already is, even with the
single luarocks mirror). I don't believe there's currently any sort of
signing of the luarocks archive is there?

Alex

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