On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 22:41, David Farning <dfarning_at_sugarlabs.org> wrote: > For the last couple of week, we have been working with Peter Pöml to > set up mirrorbrain as the content deliver network for Sugar Labs. > There are a number advantages for using a content delivery network. > > 1. Usability - We can remove the mirror information from > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry#Download_locations > . All a _user_ has to worry about is the single > http://download.sugarlabs.org location , redirection to individual > mirrors is invisible to the user. > > 2. Scalability - Rather that increasing the bandwidth or throughput on > a primary sl.org machine we can distribute the load across a system of > mirrors. Mirrors are a very well understood concept in free software > delivery. Mirrorbrain is used by both opensuse and open office with > loads 2 orders of magnitutide above Sugar Labs' loads. > > 3. Locality - Mirrorbrain uses geoip for to determine the physical > location of downloader and mirrors. Mirrorbrain can determine the > most appropriate mirror for a given download. > > Any traffic going through htp://download.sugarlabs.org (including > activity bundles) will be served through the content delivery network. Seems to be working pretty well from here in Portugal, download.sl.o gets redirected to download2.sl.o (solarsail _at_ MIT?) and utwente.nl. Both max out my connection (1.2 MB/s). Congrats, Tomeu -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ mirrorbrain mailing list Archive: http://mirrorbrain.org/archive/mirrorbrain/ Note: To remove yourself from this mailing list, send a mail with the content unsubscribe to the address mirrorbrain-request_at_mirrorbrain.orgReceived on Tue Oct 20 2009 - 15:37:07 GMT
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