Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 23:54:29 -0500 From: Blake Crosby <dev@samurai.com> To: Enno Davids <nconedd@webjump.national.com.au> Cc: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>, isp-webhosting@isp-webhosting.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Restricting Users Geographically Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020108234616.02a93008@mailbox.samurai.com> In-Reply-To: <20020109121814.E13438@webjump.national.com.au> References: <JAEEIJKIHAONENKPFCCPMEPGCBAA.dev@samurai.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10201071857450.29300-100000@misery.sdf.com> <JAEEIJKIHAONENKPFCCPMEPGCBAA.dev@samurai.com>
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At 12:18 PM 2002/01/09 +1100, Enno Davids wrote: >Not sure I see the point of advertising you as a mirror when you're only >prepared to serve a small percentage of the world's population. Not sure I >see the utility of a server that doesn't want to serve.... (but it does >make a nice existentialist dilemma!) Perhaps its more of a personal choice.. hmm The thing that bothers me is this...My webserver has a finite of resources. When someone, say, from Japan (which there are three mirrors for) access the mirror, they are using resources for potential Canadians to use. I want to contribute to the project, but I cannot afford hundreds of dollars a month to keep the mirror up - so I bandwidth limited traffic. So not only are server resources being taxed by non Candians, bandwidth is as well. This way, Canadians have exclusive access to the mirror. (well anyone with a .com .net .org .edu domain name as well). The non canadians can use one of the many mirrors in the USA or their home country. Blake Crosby dev@samurai.com http://www.blakecrosby.com "It's good to see that you haven't lost your talent for saying something so completely outrageously false it defies any possible retort." - Mike Hodnett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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