Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436CA63303A for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:26:30 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 82826-07 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:26:26 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from svr2.hagander.net (svr2.hagander.net [88.198.128.226]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8032633036 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:26:26 -0400 (AST) Received: by svr2.hagander.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C1E01DCD21B; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:26:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:26:24 +0100 From: Magnus Hagander To: Dave Page Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , Tom Lane , Josh Berkus , Stefan Kaltenbrunner , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Audio & Video? Message-ID: <20090212092624.GD14727@svr2.hagander.net> References: <499336C3.4040507@agliodbs.com> <937d27e10902111240hd7e7cc0p8f20fd3b03d989e9@mail.gmail.com> <14215.1234385050@sss.pgh.pa.us> <49933B2C.2030609@agliodbs.com> <49933BC1.30905@kaltenbrunner.cc> <49933E6B.5030401@agliodbs.com> <14942.1234387956@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20090211214320.W14664@hub.org> <937d27e10902120124p4e4cad08s6fb770ed8bb6a37@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <937d27e10902120124p4e4cad08s6fb770ed8bb6a37@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200902/63 X-Sequence-Number: 16614 On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:24:47AM +0000, Dave Page wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > could do pub/av section on the ftp server easily enough ... then no one site > > would be "hit" for the bandwidth ... > > What worries me about that is when files start to get much bigger than > 100MB, or a bunch are added at once (think 2 day conference with a > dozen or more hour long talks), when they get uploaded to the ftp > site, within a 24 hour window we'll get around 100 mirrors all trying > to rsync them at once - probably far more bandwidth than people > actually viewing the stuff! > > We have plenty of spare hardware atm (we have 4 new boxes coming > online at the moment with very good connectivity) - we can easily > setup a dedicated server for this, or I kinda like Marc's YouTube > idea. We have an offer from RackSpace for some cloud storage. Initially that was for internal access only, but we could always talk to them and see if they can provide it with external access as well. //Magnus