Subject: UK national academic mirror at http://www.mirror.ac.uk
On Thu, 8 May 2003, Joshua Slive wrote: > > On Fri, 9 May 2003, Neo Wee Teck wrote: > > > Does Apache need any rsync mirrors? Might be able to provide a "apache-dist" > > rsync site > > Yes, I think that now that we have better quality control on mirrors, it > is time to start thinking about pushing some of the rdist load off of > www.apache.org. > > I'd suggest that we could use perhaps up to a half-dozen rdist-capable > mirrors. Maybe one or two in each of Europe, Asia, and North America. > These would need to be VERY reliable sites, since if they went out of date > they would take out all their child-mirrors as well. > > Any volunteers? > > Joshua. > UK site(two physical locations atm) can be switch to single site to retain availability if an outage happens on a given site. rsync rsync.mirror.ac.uk::www.apache.org/apache-dist 200MB/s soon to be 1200MB/s no current connection limit on rsync connections. Phill. -- Senior Computer Science Computing Officer (UK Mirror Service) University Of Kent At Canterbry The UK Mirror Service http://www.mirror.ac.uk
