From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2005-09-28T01:53:40+09:00 Subject: Re: A big thank you to Robby Russell... On 9/27/05, Tom Copeland wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 01:24 +0900, Sam Mayes wrote: > > whats the process for becomming a mirror? > Procedurally, just send me or Rich Kilmer an email and we can work out > the details. Technically, you just need to be able to rsync down about > 1.1 GB of data to a host somewhere (rubyforge.yourdomain.org or > whatever) and then be able handle to handle the bandwidth load... As the first mirror, I had committed to about 50Gb bandwidth out of my available 100Gb. The 50Gb was blown in the first month (thanks, Curt! -- it was because of Curt's RoR article) but settled down after that with the addition of Dennis Oelkers's mirror. By time the fourth and fifth mirrors were announced, I was at about 70Gb again (which wasn't a problem; the machine isn't used for much else right now), so I expect to go below 30Gb per month *for now*, as Dennis is soaking up 50% of the total bandwidth and the other four mirrors are handling the 50% that's left. I wouldn't be surprised if the next move is about 35% Dennis, 35% Robby, and 30% the rest of us, because Robby has bandwidth to spare for RubyForge, too. The commitment is likely to be about 30Gb initially. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca