Re: FTP/Mirror selection

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com]
> Sent: 13 January 2005 17:18
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: FTP/Mirror selection
>
> Dave,
>
> > In the interests of getting some decent stats for the 8.0
> release, the 1
> > week release delay allowed me time to finish the code I previously
> > promised Josh to track all downloads through all mirrors.
> The result can
> > be seen at http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/ftp/ and is
> already linked
> > from the live site. Please take a minute to give it a whirl
> so we can
> > catch any hidden bugs before the 8.0 release (if there is anything
> > major, the old system can be easily reinstated, and is in fact still
> > linked from the main download page as an alternative option).
>
> This is *way* cool. How do I see the counts?

Each download is logged in the master database for the website. Some php
reports in the admin area would be nice eventually, however in the
meantime I can give you db access if you like? Would you prefer a shell
account, or SSL direct to the DB server?

> > 1) It doesn't mirror too well just yet so is all running on
> wwwmaster.
> > Eventually I just want the final mirror selection pages and
> counters on
> > wwwmaster.
>
> Won't this be a performance-killer around major releases?

Shouldn't be a major problem. The code just reads directories and
generates pages from them. The server is a lightly loaded P4 3GHz with
2GB of RAM, so it should be good for a fair few hits.

> Speaking of which, I thought that wwwmaster was moving to one
> of Gavin's
> machines and off your personal machine. No?

Yes, if I can persuade Marc to read my emails, one of which from the
beginning of the month asked him to move svr2 across so I could get
started on that. You might have seen my post to the list pointing to 3
separate messages he seems not to have got recently, all of which are
non-trivial imho. :-(

Regards, Dave.