Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:30:36 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl www/share/sgml includes.misc.sgml includes.misc.xsl Message-ID: <20050101223036.GA66136@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <20050101222238.GP761@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <200501012115.j01LF8tZ053864@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050101215234.GO761@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20050101215750.GH50770@submonkey.net> <20050101222238.GP761@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:22:38PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> >=20
> > I had considered that, but I really really want something that I can
> > just click on without having to read anything first.
>=20
> _Personally_ I think the list in the "Distribution Sites" section of
> where.html is fine for that purpose, of course it's one click away,
> but you can still just get to the files rather quickly without the
> need to read the rest of the page.
>=20
> > I think that ISC can take the beating, but if they say otherwise...
>=20
> I don't actually know about the ISC mirror, but I know that the
> TDC(/Danish) part of the mirror get a pretty hefty beating around
> release time.
>=20
It wasn't actually so bad here for the last release and we can handle a
beating, I can't speak for ISC though, but AFAIK they can handle quite
some traffic as well.
But on principle, I have to agree with Simon that we need to distribute
the load as much as possible over the geographical mirrors. The only
technical solutions that do work that I know of are (expensive) commercial
services like Akamai. Of course there are middleways like using top
level domains, but they don't really work in practice. So the best
solution that I see is for the users themselves to choose a mirror
closest to them, and if that's only one click more, that sounds like a
good deal to me.
-erwin
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