On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Peter Pöml <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 03.04.2012 um 18:17 schrieb Roberto Galoppini: >> We at SourceForge have worked the last ten days to line-up dedicated >> infrastructure (including CDN services) to support the upcoming AOO >> download serving test. > > I can hardly believe reading this! What's going on? We have an existing (and > well working) mirror network, that handles any required load just fine. It's > proven and time-tested. It has survived all releases with ease. By all > calculation, and by practical experience, the combined upload capacity of the > mirrors is sufficient to satisfy the peak download demand as well as the > sustained demand. By the way, the "peak download demand" doesn't really > differ a lot from the day-to-day download demand, contrary to public belief. > The mirrors are numerous and spread around the world, and the chance of a > client being sent to a close and fast mirror is good - better than with a > handful of mirrors as is the case with the Sourceforge mirror network. > Sourceforge specializes in something different - providing a myriad of small > files by a set of specialized mirrors. "Normal", plain simple mirrors can't > take part in this network as far as I can tell. Even though the network was > considerably extended a few years ago, from 10 (under 10?) to >20 mirrors, > this is still a small number of mirrors. (Even though these are > power-mirrors, but those are part of our existing mirror network just as > well.) >
Hi Peter, I don't think anyone is proposing to toss out MirrorBrain. The most-recent conversations have been about how we can make our download page farm out to all three: Apache, MirrorBrain and SourceForge. The idea would be that we would have sufficient capacity even with the failure of any one network. Another consideration is this: We know that the administrative site of the Apache mirror network is reliably staffed. I believe that SourceForge is reliably staffed. But what about our MirrorBrain usage? How many people on the AOO project know all the details about publishing to the network? If we had to do a release -- say a security patch -- and you were on vacation, do we have the ability to do it? Regards, -Rob
