On 08/05/05, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
1. Maintaining up-to-date realtime mirroring
would be a HUGE SUCKING
SOUND on bandwidth. This, it seems to me, is not an option.
In Jimbo's original article it says: "free bandwith". I do not
understand what the problem is. The only thing that I do see is that we
have to optimise as much as possible. It is free as in payed for. This
means that you want to be thrifty about it anyway.
We will only be getting a certain amount of bandwidth. We need to
decide how much we will be using for communication with external squid
clusters, external apache clusters, any of these mirroring ideas, and
the users themselves.
If we are given a certain amount of bandwidth, and then the sites work
slowly, will they let us get more? Even if we had previously agreed
that they were giving enough?
Or is the amount of bandwidth we will be getting simply astronomical
and we won't be able to use it all within a few years?