6 Jul
2006
6 Jul
'06
5:34 a.m.
As I'm sure everyone knows, hosting our website through SourceForge kinda sucks since it's so dang slow. Particular pain points are wiki and screenshots. SF is also continuing to prompt us about disk quota limits.
But the challenge to switching is that inkscape.org gobbles *tons* of bandwidth - 130G last month! Back when we had some downloadable packages from our website it jumped to nearly 400G.
Why not using bittorrent?
Torrent reduces the bandwidth on the host to almost nothing while allowing fast transfer of large files by sharing the transfer load among all the peers; those are features that are particularly useful when lots of people are downloading new releases. More info is available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent
Joc