[Centos] Local mirrors and ISP transfer bills

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Ed Clarke wrote:

> I'd like to recommend that everyone with some kind of server farm do this.
> The
> local mirror doesn't have to be wonderful - mine is a 200mhz PPro machine
> built
> out of junked parts - all it has to do is serve FTP.  You'll save money in the
> long run and reduce the cost to the donated mirrors.  Someone pays for the
> bandwidth, one way or the other. 

Let me add that Yam might help setting up and managing a local mirror. 
Especially if you also want to provide the ISO images and want to save 
some diskspace.

	http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/

The current config file does not include CentOS examples mainly because 
the version numbering of CentOS makes it hard to offer something that 
works in 3 months from now.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]