That would take a dedicated geek! Purchasing hard drives, downloading the dumps (and old is gigantor), doing it in many languages, keeping stocked on packing supplies, dealing with shipping, creating a dynamic website. Erik and I actually "joked" about this at some point :)
On 10/13/05, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Can we set up a "db dumps by mail" system, for people to get a full db dump on a hard drive by mail? That's the most efficient way to get the dumps out to people on slow connections.
We have done this for the <80GB of content on aduni.org http://aduni.orgfor a few years; charging a bit over the cost of materials for making each drive, to support our bandwidth. It has been extremely popular, particularly in Asia... I am sure the same would be true of a similary WP/WM program.
In particular, two people (Gordon Joly and Fernanda Viegas) have asked me in the last week if there were such an option.
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