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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 15:37, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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.

People at Uruguay's LATU told me that for now children's downloads of
activities is not a problem for them. The situation may be different
for other countries, specially as more schools get connected to
internet.

Regards,

Tomeu

> 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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>>
>>
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>



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