Re: top level Debian web site mirrors
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 06:59:32PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
>
> 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
>
A third point is that we don't control the mirrors and have had many problems
with some of the mirrors. Besides giving a bad impression of Debian when
this happens (they carry the debian.org domain name), it wastes our time
trying to get the mirror fixed.
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James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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