I would first start by finding a partner to provide the pipe. Given today's downstream bandwidth on home/office installations we are talking about 100Mbit+ connections to make it feasible.
I will NOT use a local mirror instead of a foreign mirror to save money for my ISP if I get a much better service from the standard mirror service already provided by my Linux distribution. The benefactor should be the ISP itself or datacentre. Food for thought ... On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]>wrote: > I suppose you realise how much colocation, IP address provision and > 100mbit connections cost in a typical datacentre in Malta cost, right > ? > > On 11 July 2013 11:45, James Azzopardi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ramon, > > > > If we start with the assumption that it > > should cost nothing then it is already > > doomed because the minute the benefactor/s > > is no longer interested then it stops. > > > > We all would like it to be viable and > > long running. > > > > > > JAmes > > > > On 11/07/2013 10:42, Ramon Casha wrote: > >> > >> If you have a free high-speed local connection lying around that we can > >> use, we'll be happy to set it up. > >> > >> Ramon Casha > >> Malta Linux User Group > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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