Hey,
long time no infrastructure changes (well, on the CentOS side, quite a few on my side).
As several people have offered to help moving our selfbotched system to mirrormanager (sorry Peter, but there were some offers - I am still not sure which one really is better technically, but the more helping hands, the better), I'd like to start this now.
First question: I guess as a first move we need a machine to host that on.
Can anyone running a mirrormanager instance tell me, what kind of specs that machine needs to have? Does it need to hold a copy of the mirror?
On the software side, I guess httpd and mysql-server (and mirrormanager) - anything else? Or is the sqlite variant fast enough for the amount of mirrors we have?
At the moment we run quite a few instances of mirrorlist.centos.org - the machines which hand out the urllist to machines - is that possible with mirrormanager, too? Or will one machine be able to handle the load?
Depending on your answers I am going to snatch a machine from our pool for setting that up, next week. And with that machine we can start building, testing and then deploying mirrormanager.
I am away over the weekend, so please don't expect answers - or more questions - from me before monday evening :)
Cheers,
Ralph