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Re: Linux-il hosting of web/ftp site



Ariel Nowersztern writes:
 > On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
 > 
 > > TclTek is connected to Actcom, not Trendline. 
 > 
 > And to the iix, which makes the speed pretty much a factor of the actom 
 > <-> tcltek line. I'm getting 125 ms pings from huji.
 > 
 > > Take the $50.
 > 
 > Then Ira, set it up with Jonathan.
 > 
 > > Let me know how much disk we will need for the ftp site.
 > 
 > If we're talking only about sunsite, it's 10 GB (including all 
 > distributions and duplicates which can be eliminated) and 
 > growing. At least that's what the current .du.gz at sunsite:/pub/Linux 
 > says. Can anyone get an estimate of how much it'd take if it's
 > narrowed down? 

I'm afraid I'm a little late in responding to this.  I was out of the
country for a month, and am just now catching up on my email.  For all
I know, the web site and sunsite mirror have already been set up,
we're already an amuta, and who knows what else has happened.  Teach
me a lesson for leaving the country...

In any case, there are 2 issues regarding sunsite.  One is having
enough disk space, and the other is the net bandwidth needed to do the
mirroring.  Alot of people think that trying to mirror sunsite would
swamp one's lines, but I don't think this is the case.  Once you've
managed to get a copy of sunsite up on your server, there shouldn't
be too much nightly traffic in keeping it up to date.  Good mirroring
software will only transfer things which have changed.  Basically, all
you need to transfer is an ls -lR + the changed files, which shouldn't
be too bad.

-- 
Dr. Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il


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