If we really do not need more mirrors, it is not important
to publish this info. A while back Marc, if I recall, was
soliciting more mirrors. That is why I was suggesting it.
If we've reached our bandwidth limits, then it is not
an issue.
--elein
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:28:34AM -0000, Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: elein [mailto:elein@varlena.com]
> > Sent: 19 February 2004 04:11
> > To: Devrim GUNDUZ
> > Cc: Dave Page; PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Mirror how-to?
> >
> > Can I take this and publish it more or less as is (perhaps
> > with the rsync command line, too, though) in an article
> > General Bits to promote more mirroring?
>
> The final version is online now at
> http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-howto.html. Feel free to publish it,
> but I must admit to starting to think that maybe we have enough mirrors
> now - as I type there are 77 ftp mirrors and 49 web mirrors that are
> active, and a lot more that are currently offline for whatever reason.
> That's starting to be a lot of bandwidth just to keep them sync'ed up
> and we know from a previous stats exercise that some of them get very
> few hits.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Regards Dave.
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