[opensuse] What happened to the opensuse.ca.unixheads.org mirror?

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David C. Rankin

15 Sep 2010 15 Sep '10

05:39

Guys, Anybody know why the opensuse.ca.unixheads.org mirror went away? Many repos now list only 2 US mirrors: (X11-windowmanagers) Found 2 mirrors which handle this country (US): * http://130.57.19.201/repositories/X11:/windowmanagers/openSUSE_11.3/X11:wind... (us, prio 40) * http://ftp.utexas.edu/opensuse/repositories/X11:/windowmanagers/openSUSE_11.... (us, prio 50) The ftp.utexas repo sucks and gives no more than 0-8K/s download speed. If you do an update and get this mirror, you might as well ctrl+c the update. The 130.57.19.201 is a NOVELL-WEST address, but it is slow as well, not as bad as utexas, but slow.... The opensuse.ca.unixheads.org mirror was blazing fast, any chance it will come back online? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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15 Sep 15 Sep

05:51

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:39, David C. Rankin wrote:

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Guys,

Anybody know why the opensuse.ca.unixheads.org mirror went away? Many repos now list only 2 US mirrors:

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The opensuse.ca.unixheads.org mirror was blazing fast, any chance it will come back online?

Did you try clicking through on the link you provided fro unixheads? Pretty much self explanatory. Click the Blog ling on the bottom of the page and Scott explains what/why/how. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Will Stephenson

06:47

On Wednesday 15 September 2010 07:51:27 C wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:39, David C. Rankin wrote:

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Guys,

Anybody know why the opensuse.ca.unixheads.org mirror went away? Many

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repos now list only 2 US mirrors: [snip]

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The opensuse.ca.unixheads.org mirror was blazing fast, any chance it will come back online?

Did you try clicking through on the link you provided fro unixheads? Pretty much self explanatory. Click the Blog ling on the bottom of the page and Scott explains what/why/how.

So who wants to help us get more US mirrors set up? Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Mike McMullin

07:18

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 08:47 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:

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On Wednesday 15 September 2010 07:51:27 C wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 07:39, David C. Rankin wrote:

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Guys,

Anybody know why the opensuse.ca.unixheads.org mirror went away? Many

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repos now list only 2 US mirrors: [snip]

...
The opensuse.ca.unixheads.org mirror was blazing fast, any chance it will come back online?

Did you try clicking through on the link you provided fro unixheads? Pretty much self explanatory. Click the Blog ling on the bottom of the page and Scott explains what/why/how.

So who wants to help us get more US mirrors set up?

Try approaching someone at the University of Waterloo, Kitchener/Waterloo Ontario, Canada. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

David C. Rankin

17:46

On 09/15/2010 01:47 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:

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So who wants to help us get more US mirrors set up?

Will

If I knew any institutional guys, I'd be glad to beg for space and bandwidth. Unfortunately, I don't and I doubt my home 33K up would help :p You guys that work for companies that have excess bandwidth, it never hurts to approach the decision makers and propose a mirror. Especially if the company relies on openSuSE in anyway - they would have their very own mirror - or however you can think of to approach the issue. Worse they can say is - No. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Ken Schneider - openSUSE

19:51

On 09/15/2010 01:46 PM, David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On 09/15/2010 01:47 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:

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So who wants to help us get more US mirrors set up?

Will

If I knew any institutional guys, I'd be glad to beg for space and bandwidth. Unfortunately, I don't and I doubt my home 33K up would help :p

You guys that work for companies that have excess bandwidth, it never hurts to approach the decision makers and propose a mirror. Especially if the company relies on openSuSE in anyway - they would have their very own mirror - or however you can think of to approach the issue. Worse they can say is - No.

How much space is needed? Some hosting companies tout 150GB and unlimited bandwidth for around $5.00 a month and unlimited space at $7. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

David C. Rankin

20:06

On 09/15/2010 02:51 PM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

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On 09/15/2010 01:46 PM, David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On 09/15/2010 01:47 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:

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So who wants to help us get more US mirrors set up?

Will

If I knew any institutional guys, I'd be glad to beg for space and bandwidth. Unfortunately, I don't and I doubt my home 33K up would help :p

You guys that work for companies that have excess bandwidth, it never hurts to approach the decision makers and propose a mirror. Especially if the company relies on openSuSE in anyway - they would have their very own mirror - or however you can think of to approach the issue. Worse they can say is - No.

How much space is needed? Some hosting companies tout 150GB and unlimited bandwidth for around $5.00 a month and unlimited space at $7.

We will have to get Pavol (or whoever knows how much storage 11.3/11.4 takes) to give us a total on a release size (distro + update + build service). Just a rough guess is that it runs somewhere between 60-100G now. (I think the 10.X days the total ran between 24-32G) I have no idea where it is now. But if Ken is correct, I love the idea and it seems like Novell could buy a hell of a lot of storage and bandwidth for $5-10 dollars and really improve the US mirror situation. cc: Pavol Rusnak -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

phanisvara das

20:10

On Thursday, September 16, 2010 01:21:40 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

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How much space is needed? Some hosting companies tout 150GB and unlimited bandwidth for around $5.00 a month and unlimited space at $7.

i know such companies from various webhosting attempts, and in my experience really cheap offers mean that the company is 'overselling' their capacity. they assume that hardly anybody actually will use the whole bandwidth or space and hope that things will go ok. needless to say, they usually don't. there is no such thing as "unlimited bandwidth" or "~ disk space" -- even up in the cloud they'll have to pay for what they use. i chose to go with somewhat costlier offers, even for simple webhosting needs, because those are much more reliable. if you want to host the whole packman repos, i don't think any cheap provider will suffice. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Greg Freemyer

21:01

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

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On 09/15/2010 01:46 PM, David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On 09/15/2010 01:47 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:

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So who wants to help us get more US mirrors set up?

Will

If I knew any institutional guys, I'd be glad to beg for space and bandwidth. Unfortunately, I don't and I doubt my home 33K up would help :p

You guys that work for companies that have excess bandwidth, it never hurts to approach the decision makers and propose a mirror. Especially if the company relies on openSuSE in anyway - they would have their very own mirror - or however you can think of to approach the issue. Worse they can say is - No.

How much space is needed? Some hosting companies tout 150GB and unlimited bandwidth for around $5.00 a month and unlimited space at $7.

-- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998

I've tried a couple of those low cost vendors. I would expect a usable opensuse mirror to provide multiple GBs/hr of bandwidth minimum. My experience is vendors of this type provide Hours / GB of bandwidth. (ie. the reciprocal of what we need.) ie. Even SpiderOak whom opensuse is now partnering with in some way is only offering about half a GB/hr of bandwidth or less. (I have 300GB+ at SpiderOak and it took weeks of 24hr/day traffic to get it there.) I earlier used Dreamhost. It took several months to upload a similar amount of data to them. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer CNN/TruTV Aired Forensic Imaging Demo - http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/23/how-computer-evidence-gets-retriev... The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Ken Schneider - openSUSE

22:34

On 09/15/2010 05:01 PM, Greg Freemyer pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

I've tried a couple of those low cost vendors.

I would expect a usable opensuse mirror to provide multiple GBs/hr of bandwidth minimum.

My experience is vendors of this type provide Hours / GB of bandwidth. (ie. the reciprocal of what we need.)

ie. Even SpiderOak whom opensuse is now partnering with in some way is only offering about half a GB/hr of bandwidth or less. (I have 300GB+ at SpiderOak and it took weeks of 24hr/day traffic to get it there.)

I earlier used Dreamhost. It took several months to upload a similar amount of data to them.

Greg

If several of these were used they would have a combined throughput of several GB/hr. Think of it like using torrent, with one "seeder" the throughput is low and the more you have the faster it gets. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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