Re: [Inkscape-devel] New web hosting? (Was Re: Wiki unusable)
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
Joc wrote:
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?
BitTorrent will help with the bandwidth consumption, but only for the packages. Web pages, wiki and the image gallery are also consuming a lot of bandwidth and BitTorrent can't do anything about that.
We could offer packages via BitTorrent, as an alternative, but I'm not sure how many people would use them when they can simply do a direct download.
- Spyros Blanas
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:31:39AM +0300, Spyros Blanas wrote:
Joc wrote:
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?
BitTorrent will help with the bandwidth consumption, but only for the packages. Web pages, wiki and the image gallery are also consuming a lot of bandwidth and BitTorrent can't do anything about that.
This is correct; the change under consideration is for non-downloadable stuff. The SF mirror system has been working well enough so we don't have a pressing need to make any changes there.
We could offer packages via BitTorrent, as an alternative, but I'm not sure how many people would use them when they can simply do a direct download.
Yup. That said, if anyone wishes to set up BitTorrent streams of Inkscape packages for experimental purposes, and has the time to keep an eye on them, it'd be interesting to try!
Bryce
On 7/5/06, Spyros Blanas <sblanas@...400...> wrote:
We could offer packages via BitTorrent, as an alternative, but I'm not sure how many people would use them when they can simply do a direct download.
Given that BitTorrent was invented with the goal of helping spreading FOSS software, I use it to download packages whenever possible. So, you would have at least one person wiling to use it. :)
-William
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