Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:20:38 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Webmaster <webmaster@iqindia.com> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW Mirror Server Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0107260717060.17067-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <000a01c1110f$6c3e7a20$7827c5cb@iq>
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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
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