On 28/11/14 13:57, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 07:42 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
If you have any ideas how we can solve this problem, please discuss here.
How much space is needed?
Roughly 350MB (judging from http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.5/) I think the bigger problem ist we currently have ~72k Download per week => 3TB traffic => 5MB/s mean traffic When 0.91 is released and everybody is noticed by their favorite news site about the new version I expect this to increase by at least an order of magnitude => 120TB traffic / month.
I read somewhere (can't find it atm) that you can make a torrent file which includes direct http download links so torrent clients can get the file from webservers if no one is seeding. This means if we can get some mirrors we could state that the torrent almost surely downloads faster than the direct download and don't worry about single mirrors being shut down because of too much traffic, it will still work.
Alexander