From owner-freebsd-hubs Wed Jul 25 14:20:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0C037B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:20:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6PLKZs01787; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:20:35 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:20:38 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Webmaster Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW Mirror Server In-Reply-To: <000a01c1110f$6c3e7a20$7827c5cb@iq> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Webmaster wrote: > Hi, > > We are an ISP in Central India and would like to contribute to the Freebsd project by becoming a WWW mirror. We also noticed that there is no Indian mirror on your site. > > Please tell us how to go about this and what would be requirements in terms of hardware & software and what would be the formalities involved. > excellent to hear. running a freebsd mirror has different requirements depending on whether you feel the need to be a tier 1 or tier 2 mirror. as a tier 1 mirror, you will need about 55G of disk, and at least another 10-20G over the next 12 months depending on releases. fetch bandwidth is typically low g4enerally - a few hundred megabytes a week, unless there is a major release, in which case it can be several gigabytes in a week. to run a complete freebsd site, you'd need to install rsync and cvsup to fetch files. hardware itself beyond disk space is not that big an issue. a reasonable amount of memory is needed (try to have more than 128M) for fetch purposes but really this is dictated by the number of end users you have. regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message