Re: [webmaster] Mirrors that don't suck.

It's rumoured that Brian Hirt once said:
> What type bandwidth can you
> expect to use if you become a mirror (1meg/sec? more less?)

I honestly couldn't say, but I would suspect it would be a *lot* less than
that. Whilst PostgreSQL is popular, the type of application that it is
means that it will never get anything remotely like the level of downloads
of say, Mozilla or OpenOffice.
> Also are
> http mirrors acceptable?

Currently only to mirror the web content (this is mainly because the
mirror code expects an ftp mirror to use ftp and a web mirror to use http
- changing this would require a fair bit of recoding).
> I would like to offer up one of our servers
> on mobygames.com because I love postgresql and it would be a way to
> help out a bit, but I don't really know enough about the requirements
> right now.
>
> Who should i talk to?

Me please. I'll need your server IP, and the IP of whatever boxes will be
used to rsync the content. For web mirrors you must be able to setup a
virtual host, for ftp, I alsoneed to know the path to the content (eg.
/pub/postgresql/)
> However, there are already 7 US mirrors.

There's closer to 20, but most are not active :-(

Regards, Dave.