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Re: [trinity-users] Repositories for TDE

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 13:54:24 +0200
On Monday 05 of October 2015 13:34:20 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Monday 05 October 2015 11:39:37 Mike Bird wrote:
> > On Mon October 5 2015 01:32:50 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > Is anyone happy with his/her mirror?  If so, please what is it?
> >
> > The existing mirrors are good with just occasional brief
> > outages for things like security updates.  I would suggest
> > using the mirror nearest you.
> >
> > https://trinitydesktop.org/mirrorstatus.php
>
> Thanks, Mike.  It was
> http://mirror.ntmm.org/trinity/
> which I had been using and which suddenly became unreliable.
>
> I have no way, that I know of, of knowing which is nearest to me.
>
> I'll just have to try them all until one is OK for a bit.
>

On the list is not stated mirror in France:

http://depot-trinity.dotriver.eu/trinity/


> > If anyone wants to add a full mirror you'll need 165GB right
> > now without nightlies and normally at least 200GB.  I operate
> > one of the mirrors with 250GB.  Expect 1-2TB per month of
> > downloads and maybe 10% of that for uploads.
> >
> > The problem is the bandwidth between Tim's build farm and
> > the primary mirror.  Increasing the bandwidth would be a
> > significant ongoing expense.  Moving the build farm to the
> > "cloud" would be a significant ongoing expense.
>
> We need a millionaire, as I said!!  Or a good fund raiser and some crowd
> funding.
>
> > When time permits Tim might want to move the web site to
> > a small reliable VPS and perhaps add a DNS redirector to
> > distribute load between the available mirrors.
>
> This is where we need to focus.  Webhosts will sometimes host such projects
> for free.  We have a local one which hosts several FLOSS and Linux
> projects, but the owner doesn't like me so is probably not likely to host
> TDE for free. But I'll try to get some feelers out.
>
> The reliable bit is crucial.  We might even get the chap I mentioned back!
>

Incidentally, vps already available! We got it as a donation from vpsfree.cz. 
Some time ago here were announced the mirror of GIT repository - it is 
precisely on this vps:

  http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::14614


Currently I discuss with Tim for what additional services the vps will be 
used. Currently also serves as a mirror of static web pages:

  http://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/index.php


> Lisi
>
> > --Mike
> >

-- 
Sl�vek