Dear Jeremy,
On 1/2/13, Jeremy Baron <jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com> wrote:
Are you in any of the Debian mirror rotations? (in DNS. or maybe it's
an internal mirror?) If you can handle the load / storage then you
could become a Wikimedia mirror as well. Actually I'm typing this
message on a squeeze box right now. :)
My Debian mirror is a leaf node, and is used internally. Previously,
when I used apt-mirror, I downloaded from
<http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/> which is a primary site (DNS round
robin). When I switched to ftpsync, I decided to rsync with
debian.gtisc.gatech.edu which is a secondary mirror.
I do not have sufficient storage or bandwidth to mirror much of the
Wikimedia Foundation's collection (approaching 100T ?). I do mirror a
few of the wikipedias (en, simple, xh, zu, and cho), and then only the
latest pages and articles, and their image files. This is primarily
for the purpose of developing WP-MIRROR and for internal use. Most of
my dump/image download experiments are conducted behind a web caching
proxy so as to avoid wasting the Foundation's bandwidth (and my own).
Sincerely Yours,
Kent