Danese Cooper <dan...@gmail.com> wrote on 06/07/2011 11:13:45 AM: > > 3) LOTS of people download OOo > > Like maybe 10% of the human population of the planet. And its a big file. > > Initially we engaged Akamai, but it quickly became too expensive. > Serving up downloads of OOo was pretty intense. I know Apache has > all that web server download traffic and all...but I'm telling you > Sun.com quailed at the throughput, and we shouldn't assume our > mileage will vary. There will be extraordinary infrastructure costs, > because it is end-user software (and there are a LOT of users > worldwide). Sun mitigated this problem with mirrors, but of course > that screwed download stats. > > It's a lot of code as well. When we launched it took a day (as in 24 > hours) to build. I'd imagine that situation will have improved > somewhat, but rolling a public release of end-user code is a much > different prospect to releasing another version of the web server. >
Are there any public stats on the Sun mirroring infrastructure that was (or is currently) needed to support this? It would be interesting to compare to what Apache has. -Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
