We are doing about 35Mb/s of traffic on our CentOS box here... account for about 5Mb/s of other traffic. Yes, we run Apache and the box experiences approximately 0.05 load on average. Paul -----Original Message----- From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: September 25, 2009 2:28 PM To: centos-mirror at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Average mirror traffic Am 25.09.09 20:08, schrieb Marten Lehmann: > Now I'm in doubt wether I should make our own mirror public or not. > > The first and main issue are the bandwidth costs. Can you give an > estimate on how much traffic a typical European/German mirror generates > per month? http://centos.bio.lmu.de/mrtg/141.84.43.23_141.84.43.22.html This is a german mirror, offering rsync, http and ftp, all isos including DVD. The lack of traffic you can see in July was a config problem :) > The second issue is, that some kiddies might try to attack and hack our > mirror to inject changed packages. Do you have statistics on this? Which > FTP daemon do you recommend for a hardened anonymous-FTP only service? I use vsftpd with anonymous access only - and anonymous can only read. > Btw.: What do I have to change in the yum config on each server to use > one specific repository server and not the mirrorlist system? Do I just > have comment the mirrorlist line and uncomment the baseurl? Yes, as the yum.conf manual page explains in length :) Ralph _______________________________________________ CentOS-mirror mailing list CentOS-mirror at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender immediately and then destroy this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. Thank you."