Please correct me if I'm wrong.  But I thought that the Apache
mirrors have more bandwidth than the SourceForge mirrors.  Could someone
explain why do we put the default download to places with less bandwidth?

Apache mirrors:
http://www.apache.org/mirrors/

SourceForge mirrors:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mirrors

On 2012/03/21 03:07, Dave Fisher said:
> 
> On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote:
> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Mark Ramm <[email protected]>
>>> To: [email protected]; Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> 
>>> Cc: Ross Gardler <[email protected]> 
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:25 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Sourceforge and AOO 3.4 distribution
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> FWIW the ballpark figures we have today Roberto
>>>>
>>>> are roughly 12GB worth of release artifacts and
>>>>
>>>> about100TB / day worth of download traffic.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the information.
>>>
>>> I'm working with Roberto to make sure all the right technical
>>> resources are aligned behind him, and that we have the resources to
>>> provide a great experience to your users. So, I'm here to help out,
>>> and validate everything to make sure we are prepared to handle AOO's
>>> peak load.
>>>
>>> Based on the file size data in the previous e-mail, and this bandwidth
>>> information, I believe we are talking about something around 700k
>>> download per day.
>>>
>>> Is that peak load, or is that sustained load? If it's sustained, do
>>> you have any ideas about what peak load would look like?  If not, do
>>> you have any ideas about what sustained load would look like?
>>
>>
>> Up until the Update service broke last week, ooo was sustaining 300K
>> downloads a day. We used a ballpark download figure of 300 MB per user,
>> which may explain the discrepancy if you used something considerably less.
>>
>>
>> We simply don't have any data at this point about peak load to make
>> any educated guesses.
> 
> When this subject came up last year Marcus described peak as 300,000 
> downloads / day.
> 
> Stats were collected until last February's switch to Kenai. See 
> http://www.openoffice.org/marketing/marketing_bouncer.html
> 
> Depending on how we handle the announcement of AOO 3.4 - press, update 
> service, and ooo-announce we might be able to spread a single spike into more 
> smaller peaks.
> 
> HTH,
> Dave
> 
>>
>>
>>>
>>> And finally: would you have any objection to us using a mix of fixed
>>> mirrors, elastic file delivery services (like s3), and commercial CDN
>>> service to handle spikes in download gracefully and assure that global
>>> users get good download performance when local mirrors are overloaded
>>> or not available?
>>
>>
>> No, we may even be willing to budget some amount for this purpose.
>> Cost estimates would be appreciated as our budget numbers for FY2012
>> need to be finalized next week.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'm looking forward to working with all of you to make sure that users
>>> have a reliable and fast download source for the upcoming Apache Open
>>> Office release.   Let me know if there's any questions I can answer
>>> for you, or anything else I can do to help.
>>>
>>> --Mark Ramm
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