X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B7AD1E14B for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:43:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65739-07 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 04:43:21 -0400 (AST) Received: from php.gurugeek.org (unknown [213.174.166.198]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6BDAD1E149 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 04:42:58 -0400 (AST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by php.gurugeek.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917221ECB4B; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:43:04 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B889F3F0@mail.vale-housing.co.uk> References: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B889F3F0@mail.vale-housing.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List From: David Costa Subject: Re: Mirror how-to? Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:43:03 +0100 To: "Dave Page" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200402/134 X-Sequence-Number: 3699 On Feb 19, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Dave Page wrote: > > 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. Hi Dave, just thinking lout, but on php.net they do limit 2 mirrors per country=20 (4 for USA as the only exception I think). They do that for bandwidth purposes. Furthermore, the php webmasters have a script to monitor when a mirror=20 goes down. If the downtime is over 1-2 days they will remove it from the list and email the mirror owner. In your case they get automagically deleted from the live list (as far=20 as I understand) which is a good thing=AE I might suggest that we email (I can help you with this, if needed) the=20 offline mirrors. I can also have the switch.ch Sunsite to mirror postgresql. This might=20 come handy because, as far as I can see, you do not have a mirror in Switzerland. (Nothing urgent thou..) Eventually there could be an "official rule" to limit the number of=20 mirrors in a said country. For the hits, I think that the general server load will be properly=20 distributed when we will adopt the ip-2-country redirection. It would=20 also be nice if the mirrors will keep at least one link pointing to the mirror site in their own website (as we do on dotgeek).=20 This will also help as a sort of promotion. ta muchly David Costa > > What do others think? > > Regards Dave. > > ---------------------------(end of=20 > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster