I've just ordered a new server to replace centos.zanker.org (UK mirror) - this will have plenty of disk space allowing me to host a full mirror.
I'm just wondering what's the best version of CentOS to install on it, bearing in mind that I might want to host the DVDs at some point. I'll need a version of apache that supports files greater than 2GB - will the CentOS 5.1 apache be OK for this? Should I install the 32-bit or 64-bit CentOS?
I'd also be interested to know what people who host the DVDs are seeing bandwidth-wise - I have 3TB a month to play with...
Thanks in advance,
Mike
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 05:47:14PM +0000, Mike Zanker wrote:
I'm just wondering what's the best version of CentOS to install on it, bearing in mind that I might want to host the DVDs at some point. I'll need a version of apache that supports files greater than 2GB - will the CentOS 5.1 apache be OK for this? Should I install the 32-bit or 64-bit CentOS?
If you have 64bit HW, then I would go for 64bit CentOS 5.1, it will handle big files well. Or you can use another lightweight server just for mirrors - like lighttpd, I have good experience with this, as mirror traffic does not overload main server with its services.
I'd also be interested to know what people who host the DVDs are seeing bandwidth-wise - I have 3TB a month to play with...
I have In: 172,50 G Out: 4,66 T Total: 4,84 T for 01.2008, but this includes all traffic, mainly slax.org mirror. But from this you can see, that 3TB/month is not so big amount.
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Kasparek Tomas wrote:
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 05:47:14PM +0000, Mike Zanker wrote:
I'd also be interested to know what people who host the DVDs are seeing bandwidth-wise - I have 3TB a month to play with...
I have In: 172,50 G Out: 4,66 T Total: 4,84 T for 01.2008, but this includes all traffic, mainly slax.org mirror. But from this you can see, that 3TB/month is not so big amount.
On mirror.chpc.utah.edu, I push about 250 gig every day, with spikes up to about 400. That is all traffic for my box, which is an official CentOS mirror and an unofficial Fedora mirror.
Based on my numbers, you would want to look at some sort of bandwidth throttling. mod_bandwidth (for Apache) looks interesting.
DR
On 04/02/08 19:47, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Mike Zanker wrote:
I'd also be interested to know what people who host the DVDs are seeing bandwidth-wise - I have 3TB a month to play with...
I get around 2MB/s - which is 5TB in 30 days.
Thanks for the replies - looks like I won't be able to host the DVDs, but everything else should be fine.
Mike
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