On Sep 8, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 8, 2017, at 10:51, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >> On Sep 7, 2017, at 9:37 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> That'll happen when a huge port gets built and the resulting packages must >>> be transferred between my private rsync server and the public one. In this >>> case, it was probably that clang-devel, llvm-devel, and lldb-devel were >>> updated, and this produced many large binaries (six 900MB binaries for >>> clang-devel; seven 750MB binaries for llvm-devel; two 275MB binaries for >>> lldb-devel). >>> >>> I do intend to increase the speed of the internet connection soon so that >>> this will be less of a problem. >> >> Would it be reasonable to move things around so we're not dependent on your >> (presumably consumer-class) internet connection? > > What would you suggest move, where?
I don't know how the current infrastructure is set up - so I can't make concrete suggestions. MacPorts is used pretty widely - I would be surprised if there was no one at an ISP or University who could offer us some space/power/bandwidth. [I may be able to help find some place like that, if it were desired]. > Last I looked into moving the Xserves to a data center, colocation was > extremely expensive. MacStadium seems to have pretty reasonable pricing (mini with gigE for $54/month), but again I don't know what our infrastructure requires. > My Internet connection is not consumer-class. If it were a consumer > connection, it would be much faster and much cheaper, but ISPs does not allow > running servers on consumer connections, so it is an expensive and slow > business-class connection. If we don't care about having static IP addresses for these machines, I have a 2 post rack in my basement that's mostly empty and a 1gig consumer connection that I'd be happy to share with the project. > As I said, I plan to increase the speed of the connection; the ISP has > changed their offering since I originally set it up and it should be possible > now to get a faster connection for the same price. ok. -- Daniel J. Luke
