Austin English wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Scott Ritchie<sc...@open-vote.org> wrote: >> Marty Cannon wrote: >>> Hey guys, >>> Since the wine.budgetdedicated.com <http://wine.budgetdedicated.com> >>> server was down all weekend, I thought I'd offer an additional mirror >>> location. I currently mirror several major linux distributions, and >>> would love to contribute to something as valuable to the community as >>> the wine project is. My site currently runs around 3500GB per month, so >>> a few hundred GB worth of transfer shouldn't make much difference. >>> I've never set up an apt mirror, but with some instruction and googling, >>> I bet I can do it. At the very least, I can mirror the package archive >>> just incase the main site goes down. Let me know how I can help. >>> >>> -Marty Cannon >>> amarillolinux.com <http://amarillolinux.com> >>> >>> >> It should be up for good now, so this won't be necessary. >> >> Please note that the outage was my fault rather than budgetdedicated's >> -- I had a cron script that kept chewing up memory without my realizing >> it, eventually crashing apache. >> >> I've migrated everything now and it should be taken care of. >> >> Thanks, >> Scott Ritchie >> >> >> > > Since when is a mirror a bad thing? >
It isn't, of course, however it can't replace the role of apt server (which would require users to manually alter their sources.list file). So mirror the archive page, sure, but it'll still be a big problem when it's down. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
