top level Debian web site mirrors
Short summary for debian-www readers: I've been trying to set up another
push-mirror for web pages, in .cz, but in the process I found out there may
be some policy changes regarding web mirrors, so read below if you're
interested.
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:19:12AM +0100, Antonin Kral wrote:
> > Anyway, none of the two sites is really presented to the users by our
> > site, neither is in the default drop-list on www.d.o front page, so we
> > can anticipate growth of hits on the site once (if) it becomes
> > www.cz.d.o.
>
> Yes, that's why we tring to convince you, that debian.sh.cvut.cz can be
> used as push-mirror for Czech Republic.
We've had some discussions about the purpose of web site mirrors internally,
and concluded that we don't actually need a new push-mirror in Europe. In
fact, we could be disowning some of the existing 16 mirrors in the future...
The two primary reason for this sentiment are:
* mirrors don't generate enough traffic to warrant often rsyncing
* www.debian.org is close (network-wise) to most of the world, because
recently the global connectivity has been improving, a lot, enough to be
able to browse such a web site from anywhere, at decent speed
Point 1 is alterable because we could advertize them more, but it still
wouldn't help some of the sites. We can, however, list your site as "Czech
Republic" in the user-visible mirror menu on www.debian.org, even though it
may not be www.cz.debian.org. I'm going to do some rearrangements on the
site so that users are able to select a mirror on all pages.
Then, after some time, we could perhaps re-evaluate setting up some more
push-rsync mirrors, including yours. Sorry it didn't work out now :(
As for other mirrors, if any maintainers are reading: there's no repository
on master.debian.org anymore, and not all rsync passwords have been moved to
the new host, www-master.debian.org. If you wish to continue mirroring,
please contact us.
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