From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-08-21T15:49:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-doc.org content snarfing

Aredridel wrote:
> 
> James -- is there a possibility of you providing a tarball of the whole
> site for download?
> 
> I'd be more than willing to host a tracker and seed for a Bit Torrent
> copy of it.

A tarball of the whole site would be close to 5 GB. That's including the
videos.  Torrents for the videos might be a good idea; I'm not sure a
torrent for anything else is all that useful.  There are assorted
bundles and stand-alone files that are easy to download as needed.  Much
of the site's content  consists of links to other places.  There's the
HTML version of Programming Ruby, and the core and standard lib docs.

Each of these gets updated on a different schedule.  A monolithic
tarball would be out of date fairly quick.

In actual practice, the traffic has been fine.  It's just this one time
somebody decided to go grab what appears to be *everything*, all in one day.

Thank you for the offer, though.  When I first started hosting videos on
the site  was unfamiliar with bittorrent.  Now, though, it seems as if
it would be a good option for the larger files.


James