Setting up an rsync based mirroring system is trivial. After that you could either use dns based load balancing or have a few random mirrors come up when the person goes to download. Doing the random links bit in php would probably be better since it could handle non-standard directories of the files and could do a sort of "priority". I'm sure that finding enough people to host mirrors wouldn't be hard. I know I wouldn't mind donating space/bandwidth on my web server. I don't think that bittorrent would be the answer for distribution. The first problem being that the files are very small. It wouldn't really be -that- useful until the files were >50MB. The second problem is that most users are not going to have it installed. -Paul
On 1/29/06, sandos <sandos at home.se> wrote: > Phillip Hutchings wrote: > > > > On 28/01/2006, at 7:00 AM, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > >> This whole BitTorrent thing is distracting people from the important > >> point: We need people to offer web-space so that we can offer HTTP > >> downloads. So far, only one person has responded usefully in this vein. > > > > I have 200-300GB/month spare. The server's connected at 10Mbit half duplex. > > I have a 10Mbit half-duplex connection to my home (no bw limit), but I'm > not sure we want to use non-commercial grade connections for mirrors? > I'm also not willing to give away 100% of my bandwidth for some > prolonged period of time: I could "give up" a larger portion of my > bandwidth the shorter the time we are talking about. > > --- > John B?ckstrand > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
