[Systems] (fwd) Proposal for Spain and Europe mirror

[David Farning]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 00:55, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 14:02 -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
>>> It  would be nice to point Jose to the documentation
>>>
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team/Content_Delivery_Network
>>>
>>> Although it needs more explanation about how to set the mirror..
>>
>> Thank you very much for the offer, Jose.
>>
>> We do already have 2 mirrors in Europe thanks to Marten, but a third one
>> will certainly not hurt. If we could find a good contact, we'd need to
>> setup one or more mirrors for Latin America, which is where most traffic
>> originates from.
>>
>> Basically, all you need to do is setup a cronjob that leaches everything
>> from rsync://download.sugarlabs.org/pub/ at regular intervals (6 hours
>> or even more often). When you're done, tell me what the URL is and I'll
>> add it to mirmon and mirrorbrain.
>
> If someone writes a wiki page with the commands that need to be
> executed in debian and/or fedora, I will pass it to my contacts at LA.
>
> Also, is there a single location in LA that is well connected to most
> of the rest of the region? Or do we need mirrors in every country that
> has strong Sugar usage?

I'll update the wiki page this afternoon (please remind me if i forget).

Technically, Sugar doesn't really need more mirrors.  The combination
of ibiblio, mit, and rit will be able to cover the load for the new 2
years.  CDN capacity is not something to worry about yet.

Socially, Running mirrors is a great way for an organization to make a
'first investment' in the project.

Quality of service can be improved by locating mirrors closer to end
users.  This is particularly true in locations with poor international
connections or that have a surchage for bandwidth leaving their ASN.

david

> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> I do not know all the details myself. David or Marten may be able to
>> provide additional advice or expand the documentation in the wiki as
>> needed.
>>
>> Marten, would you like to share your current mirror script and perhaps
>> attach it to the wiki page?
>>
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