Dear All,
in the current economic climate I'm finding it increasingly difficult to justify colocating my CentOS mirror server. Therefore, I'm afraid that I shall be removing it from service on the 26th November. I'll keep it running right up to that date but I wasn't sure how much notice you'd need to remove it from your scripts, etc.
I've enjoyed contributing to the CentOS project this way and shall continue to be a CentOS user on my other servers.
Regards,
Hi Mike We are sorry to know the news of removal of one mirror out of 5 from UK.
We all hope, the economic climate will change soon and you will start running this mirror again. Regarding notice to centos mirror management, I think one of your email bellow is enough for Mr. Tru to manage the script.
Thank you for your contributions.
Regards
Ahamed Bauani Dhaka, Bangladesh http://www.bdnic.net/mirrors/centos/
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Mike Zanker mike@zanker.org wrote:
Dear All,
in the current economic climate I'm finding it increasingly difficult to justify colocating my CentOS mirror server. Therefore, I'm afraid that I shall be removing it from service on the 26th November. I'll keep it running right up to that date but I wasn't sure how much notice you'd need to remove it from your scripts, etc.
I've enjoyed contributing to the CentOS project this way and shall continue to be a CentOS user on my other servers.
Regards,
-- Mike Zanker _______________________________________________ CentOS-mirror mailing list CentOS-mirror@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror
We are sorry to know the news of removal of one mirror out of 5 from UK.
I am currently running a CentOS Mirror (Here in a UK Data Centre) for personal use. I run a private mirror of both x86 & x86_64 of CentOS v5. I do have quite a large Monthly bandwidth allowance as well. What are the typical stats of a mirror and I will see if I can turn my private mirror into a public one...
Dear Gavin Spurgeon
Thank you for your wish to make your private mirror to public. Here in this mailing list a lot of people can assist you with actual aprox bandwidth needed to run an UK mirror. In my mirror in Bangladesh, normally I have 1 to 8 Mb/s of International traffic for my Mirror with FULL CentOS tree with DVD ISO in place. This is about 2000 GB of monthly data without DVD ISO and Mirror sync Process.
Hopefully any of our UK fellow can help you with full information.
Regards
Ahamed Bauani Dhaka, Bangladesh.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Gavin Spurgeon gspurgeon@dageek.co.uk wrote:
We are sorry to know the news of removal of one mirror out of 5 from UK.
I am currently running a CentOS Mirror (Here in a UK Data Centre) for personal use. I run a private mirror of both x86 & x86_64 of CentOS v5. I do have quite a large Monthly bandwidth allowance as well. What are the typical stats of a mirror and I will see if I can turn my private mirror into a public one...
--
"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.." Gavin Spurgeon. AKA Da Geek
CentOS-mirror mailing list CentOS-mirror@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror
On 7/11/08 12:55, Gavin Spurgeon wrote:
I am currently running a CentOS Mirror (Here in a UK Data Centre) for personal use. I run a private mirror of both x86 & x86_64 of CentOS v5. I do have quite a large Monthly bandwidth allowance as well. What are the typical stats of a mirror and I will see if I can turn my private mirror into a public one...
Gavin, mine's been running at about 1TB per month in total, but that's with all releases and architectures plus CD isos (but not DVD).
Mike
Hi Mike,
I am currently running a CentOS Mirror (Here in a UK Data Centre) for personal use. I run a private mirror of both x86 & x86_64 of CentOS v5. I do have quite a large Monthly bandwidth allowance as well. What are the typical stats of a mirror and I will see if I can turn my private mirror into a public one...
Gavin, mine's been running at about 1TB per month in total, but that's with all releases and architectures plus CD isos (but not DVD).
1Tb a month is a lot less that I thought... My mirror does not have the .iso's just the YUM Repos mirrored.
Do I 'really' need to do the .iso's ? I would have thought the BitTorrent is/would have been better to distribute the .iso's
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 15:06 +0000, Gavin Spurgeon wrote:
Hi Mike,
I am currently running a CentOS Mirror (Here in a UK Data Centre) for personal use. I run a private mirror of both x86 & x86_64 of CentOS v5. I do have quite a large Monthly bandwidth allowance as well. What are the typical stats of a mirror and I will see if I can turn my private mirror into a public one...
Gavin, mine's been running at about 1TB per month in total, but that's with all releases and architectures plus CD isos (but not DVD).
1Tb a month is a lot less that I thought... My mirror does not have the .iso's just the YUM Repos mirrored.
Do I 'really' need to do the .iso's ? I would have thought the BitTorrent is/would have been better to distribute the .iso's
Not trying to insight too much, but BitTorrent is actually quite bad as a distribution mechanism when compared to even a very minor mirroring system. It's use-fullness and desirability gets even less appealing when you look at it from the perspective of mirror servers participating in the BitTorrent cloud. BitTorrent is non-trivial to setup and use, anyone on this list would have no problem, but many users can't or don't know to setup their networks to make proper use of it (really BT is a usability nightmare).
This is not to say that BitTorrent doesn't have it's place. It's a very useful tool far out fringes of the network cloud (Australia and New Zealand are prime examples), and for moving content that does not have an established mirroring setup.
That said Centos has a very well established mirror setup, and even has, what look to be, good mirrors near the fringes. BitTorrent really doesn't make sense and this won't be the first, or last, that I advocate distributions - including Centos - just flat out give up on it and drop support for it as a primary distribution means. (If you want I wrote, and presented a paper on this at OLS this year, it can be found in the proceedings archive at http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2008/ols-2008-Proceedings-V1.pdf - the title of the paper is "Issues in Linux Mirroring: Or, BitTorrent Considered Harmful" page 173)
- John 'Warthog9' Hawley Chief Kernel.org Administrator
Hey John,
J.H. wrote:
If you want I wrote, and presented a paper on this at OLS this year, it can be found in the proceedings archive at http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2008/ols-2008-Proceedings-V1.pdf -
What are the chances you still have and are ok to sharing the rtorrent configs that you are using ?
- KB
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:32:58PM +0000, Mike Zanker wrote:
Dear All,
Dear Mike,
Thanks for being with us during all that time, it has been a shared pleasure.
Best regards,
Tru
-
CentOS Mirror Maintainer of BDNIC.NET -
Gavin Spurgeon -
J.H. -
Karanbir Singh -
Mike Zanker -
Tru Huynh