I've got 3 servers soon to be 4 online. I think there are enough of us with servers and good home bandwidth to handle the load after an initial seed
On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Stephen Reese <[email protected]> wrote: > I have several Linode hosts around the US but they don't have nearly > the storage nor bandwidth to host this data... > > I recently spoke with Hurricane Electric and they have a pretty good > deal on a dedicated host with a 100Mb/s pipe, unlimited transfer and > enough storage (500GB) to host the tables plus the 60Gigs of tables I > already have, ~$70 month. If enough people were interested in donating > a small amount to the cost then we could put in on a dedicated box. > > Any other ideas? > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bit torrent would be ok for sharing after the con but sharing during >> the event is harder because people seem to be happy leaving usb >> drives >> around but not their laptops. >> >> It would have to be on a private network as we wouldn't want to go on >> the main Shmoocon network and max that one out even though it might >> give more people access if they could leave their machines in their >> rooms collecting data. >> >> Robin >> >> On 10 February 2010 14:58, David Auclair <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> This sounds like the perfect application for BitTorrent. >>> >>> Without getting into too many details, a group I know wanted to >>> distribute a 5GB dataset to ~100 computers. They distributed it >>> via BitTorrent, and they maxed out the bandwidth of their >>> network. (all ports on the switches were saturated bidirectionally) >>> >>> -Dave >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> On Behalf Of Robin Wood >>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:22 PM >>>> To: PaulDotCom Mailing List >>>> Subject: [Pauldotcom] Shmoocon Rainbow Table Swapshop >>>> >>>> So, Shmoocon is over and the swapshop happened. Unfortunately it >>>> wasn't as successful as it could have been but for the first >>>> attempt I >>>> think it went OK. >>>> >>>> A number of people donated tables and others leached sets, the >>>> problem >>>> turned out to be that the initial donation was about 300GB and to >>>> copy >>>> that from one external disk to a second was taking up to 7 hours, >>>> when >>>> two people were copying that time shot up even more. >>>> >>>> When I get back home to the UK I'll do an inventory of what I >>>> collected and find some way to share it out to those who want >>>> copies. >>>> I'll also have a play with different methods of running the >>>> system to >>>> try to drop that time down to something more manageable. >>>> >>>> Thanks to Darren and Larry for donating hardware and the PaulDotCom >>>> crew in general for keeping an eye on the setup while I was running >>>> round doing other con activities. >>>> >>>> Robin >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Pauldotcom mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >>>> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pauldotcom mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >>> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
