[PLUG] linuxfromscratch needs a home

[Tyler F. Creelan]

> Bottom line is that it looks like there could be help for LFS if they
> could restructure the data for smaller downloads or if they could share
> the load across mirrors somehow.

Goneril:
As you are old, you shou'd be staid and wise,
Here do you keep an hundred Sources and Tarballs,
Files so debaucht and bold that this our Palace
Shews like a riotous Inn, a Tavern, Brothel;
Be then advised by she that else will take
The she that beggs, to lessen your Bandwidth,
Take half a way, and see that the remainder
Be such as may befit your Age, and know
Themselves and you.

Lear/LFS:
Darkness and Devils!
Saddle my Horses, call my Train together,
Degenerate Viper, I'll not colloc my files with Thee;
I yet have left a Server. Serpent, Monster,
Lessen my Tarballs, and call 'em riotous?
All Kernel Sources approv'd of choice and rarest Parts,
That each particular of duty know?
How small, Sourceforge, was thy Fault? O LFS,
Beat at this Gate that let thy Folly in,
And thy dear Judgment out.

ActI, ll 380.

Anyone else reminded of King Lear?  :-)

-TYler

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:

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> I asked a friend of mine if he might be able to handle the colo of
> LFS.  His answer is below.  Bottom line is that it looks like there
> could be help for LFS if they could restructure the data for smaller
> downloads or if they could share the load across mirrors somehow.
>
> Sigh...
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> I certainly have the physical room, but can you give me an idea
> of the amount of bandwidth they typically use? I had a "friend"
> sink all 7 of the t1's here after they put out a set of U2 MP3's
> on their website - I can handle a lot but this ain't a 100 mbit
> pittock building colo... If they have ten thousand people a day
> downloading ISO's I probably can't handle it :-)
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> > http://community.linuxfromscratch.org/explanation.txt
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> oh, gulp - 23GB/day ... I just read that. Last paragraph stats
> 2500-3000kbit/second, in otherwords, maxing out of two $900/month
> T1 circuits... at that level I don't think I can do it... I know
> a company down at the pittock that has the bandwidth but they
> also have to pay for it - about $300/meg, so a 3000kbit/second
> connection would cost them $900/month (much cheaper than t1's but
> still $$$)...
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> so... ahem, I hate to say no but I can't handle the load they
> are talking about...  I think they need to find a well located,
> and well heeled ISP that is not paying $/bits (like my friends
> at the pittock) or limited to smaller pipes, even if there are a
> lot of them (like me). No doubt this is why they are having such
> problems finding a new home... If there is a reduced version of
> the site or they could stand to be bandwidth limited, I would be
> more than happy to help out.
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