Re: how much space the mirror needs?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

Diwakar - tamil.com rearranged electrons thusly:

> how much space and bandwidth a linux mirror would require? the company i'm
> working with can help. i asked my boss, the CEO of tamil.com about hosting a
> mirror for free and he said no problem.
 
Hint - the average linux ISO is ~ 450 .. 600 megs in size.  You can expect most
of LIH (for starters) to hit your server.

You'd best have something like what sourceforge has (a bit less will do as
regards the bandwidth  <g>)

> SourceForge.net/OSDN FTP server - Boston (ftp2.sourceforge.net)
> Current Anonymous Users: 421 out of 750 maximum.
> Additional access is at http://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/
>
> Got a fat pipe and something to prove? Host a SourceForge download
>   server! Email dtype@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for opportunities.
> This machine is a Dual PIII 850Mhz, 2GB RAM, 1.5TB on a Mylex
>   ExtremeRAID Controller, switched gigabit to Exodus Boston.
> Mirrors, try 'rsync download.sourceforge.net::'
>
> On This Site:
> /debian/                   Debian GNU/Linux
> /pub/mirrors/              Mirrors Archive
> /pub/mirrors/iso/          ISO9660 (CDROM) Image Archive
> /pub/sourceforge/          SourceForge.net Project File Archive
> /pub/suse/                 SuSE Linux
> /pub/yellowdog/            Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC & RS/6000

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