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

Dave,

I can go about setting up a web mirror, but i cannot offer a download
mirror if we have to use ftp. Our security policies are not to allow
ftp access. It's just one more thing to worry about if we open up our
firewall. I hope you understand. Will it be a problem only offer the
web mirror? We have a 10mbit/sec connection, but probably wouldn't
want postgresql to take up more than 1mbit/sec on average. we also
have several free gigabytes of disk.

Best Regards,

Brian Hirt

On Dec 24, 2003, at 4:46 PM, Dave Page wrote:

> 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.
>
>