Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-28 Diskussionsfäden Andres Aeschlimann
Hello all, Let me give you some more information about the decision of SWITCH to close down the well known SWITCHmirror service. In about 1990, the newly born Internet was such a success, that soon after, lines were completely overloaded, and it became literally impossible to download anyth

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-23 Diskussionsfäden Claudio Luck
Hi On 23.08.18 10:37, Manuel Wenger wrote: > Thank you Fredy for pointing this out. It's really a pity SWITCHmirror is > shutting down. > > We are also interested in understanding what would be involved in keeping > such a mirror alive, especially from a storage and bandwidth perspective. > >

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-23 Diskussionsfäden Manuel Wenger
Thank you Fredy for pointing this out. It's really a pity SWITCHmirror is shutting down. We are also interested in understanding what would be involved in keeping such a mirror alive, especially from a storage and bandwidth perspective. Could someone from Switch please comment? It'd be highly a

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Viktor Steinmann
Thanks for bringing this to our attention Fredy. Most of us would have missed it probably. It's a pity, they're shutting down this service. This has been an institution. Reliable and trusted. Unfortunately, there is no real explanation, why they're discontinuing the service. Care to comment,

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Patrick Studer
That’s really sad. Unfortunately, they don’t mentioned exactly, why they are going to shutdown service. Or is the outdated Sun Hardware the reason for the shutdown. As longterm user of the SwitchMirror, I would be glad to contribute in some ways, to help this (or something similar) service stay

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Nico Schottelius
Wow, I am surprised! Thanks for pointing out, Fredy. We are currently running a Devuan & OpenNebula mirror on https://mirror.datacenterlight.ch/ and are already planning to add support for Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS in the near future, as we want to have As we operate this mirror anyway, we woul

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-22 Diskussionsfäden rainer
Am 2018-08-22 15:40, schrieb Fredy Kuenzler: SWITCH announced that they plan to close down mirror.switch.ch. See announcement http://mirror.switch.ch/ I personally think this is very sad. In the name of the community I would like to thank SWITCH for their support over all these years. However I

[swinog] mirror.switch.ch to be closed down

2018-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Fredy Kuenzler
SWITCH announced that they plan to close down mirror.switch.ch. See announcement http://mirror.switch.ch/ I personally think this is very sad. In the name of the community I would like to thank SWITCH for their support over all these years. However I would like to start the discussion how we can