On Aug 1, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> AFAIK the current projects at Apache doesn't have high download numbers >> compared with OOo. So, a download request can point directly to a mirror or >> a mirror list is shown and the users have to choose themselves from where to >> get the software best. >> >> For OpenOffice this doesn't work. With download numbers up to 500,000 per >> month we need a more flexible and scaleable solution. I don't know if or how >> fast we could reach these numbers again. But even with the half it would be >> a lot to handle. Furthermore we have to present a) a simple way to download >> for the end-users that is b) *not* stressing a few/specific mirror servers >> to their maximum. >> >> The current solution you can see on "download.openoffice.org" works very >> well. However, the infrastructure behind this is still hosted on Oracle >> server. So, we have to transfer this, too. >> >> I don't speak about domain, website and its content. That's already on the >> list for migration. It's about the download redirector behind the colored >> webpages (http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/). Here MirrorBrain >> is used (www.mirrorbrain.org) to recognize from where the download request >> comes and which mirror server to choose that is near to the user. >> >> I would like to continue this service and IMHO it shouldn't be that >> difficult when I look at the requirements: >> http://www.mirrorbrain.org/requirements/ >> > > The obvious question would be: Is there a problem with using the 262 > mirrors that Apache already uses?
Maybe, if we are hosting the current legacy of non AL2.0 licensed distributions it will be an issue. > > http://www.apache.org/mirrors/ > > Do you think that they cannot handle the load? > > From what I'm reading, the Apache system does not just give a static > list of mirrors to the user. There is some logic to ensure that the > same server is not at the top all the time. And there are mechanisms, > like closer.cgi to suggest a reasonable mirror for a given user, e.g.: > > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi > > I wonder whether it would make sense to try the Apache mirroring > infrastructure until we're convinced that it won't work? The python for the Apache Mirrors is here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi Mirror list is here: http://www.apache.org/mirrors/mirrors.list Someone mentioned that there is a lot of overlap with OOo mirrors. Regards, Dave > >> When running in a VM it should be a small part within the OpenOffice project >> to maintain. In the past at Oracle we just had to add/modify/delete mirrors >> and very few times to restart the VM in case of problems. >> >> Marcus >>
