Re: Mirrors that don't suck.

I've run into problems with some of the mirrors being consistently
unavailable and really slow to download 4k/sec on a lot of them.

ftp://ftp9.us.postgresql.org/pub/mirrors seems to work great all the
time. Now I hope this doesn't come across as complaining, because the
reason for this email is a question. What type bandwidth can you
expect to use if you become a mirror (1meg/sec? more less?) Also are
http mirrors acceptable? 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?

However, there are already 7 US mirrors.

On Dec 23, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 13:39, Dan Vande More wrote:
>> Hey list, I'm just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction
>> of a mirror that doesn't suck.
>>
>> I generally don't do alot with postgres other than downloading and
>> installing the newest releases.
>> Everytime there is a release, it takes forever for it to show up on
>> an ftp server.
>> This is in the case that the ftp server even works. Now in a case
>> where one likes to browse with the browser of their choice, it
>> totally blows because it's _so_ slow.
>>
>> So is there maybe an http download somewhere? Or an FTP site that
>> doesn't give me an "directory doesn't exist" error, or one that has
>> more than 15k available, or one that maybe has the newest
>> releases(7.4.1)? All of those would be perfect...
>>
>> Dan
>
> So this is how not to write an email asking people for help, seriously.
> I just checked the first 5 mirror sites on the ftp mirrors page and
> everyone of them had the latest code under pub/source/v7.4.1/ (or
> something similar). What might have been a more helpful email would be
> to point out that the ftp site are still showing 7.4.0 in the main
> directory and the directory for latest is also pointing to 7.4.0, both
> should be updated to 7.4.1. You might have also included a list of the
> mirror sites you were having trouble with so problems with those sites
> could be tracked down easier. You might also want to CC
> webmaster(at)postgresql(dot)org as well as posting to the -general list.
>
> Oh, and for future reference you can download via http at
> http://developer.postgresql.org/ftpsite/, and also at the sourceforge
> site http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsql/ (though I hesitate to
> mention it because I haven't uploaded 7.4.1 there quite yet...)
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Robert Treat
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