The purpose of mirrors in Israel is not so much to reduce the load on the existing servers, but to increase download speed by allowing most Israeli Perl users to download stuff from inside Israel, where the bandwidth is better.
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 16:21 +0300, Meir Guttman wrote: > Why do we need mirrors at all??? Mirrors, even when automatically maintained > by an Akamai-like technology, require human efforts and non-trivial > resources. > > Is the load on CPAN so heavy that it can't cope? -- Bottom posters are filthy heretics and infidels and ought to be burned on the stake after having been tarred, feathered and having rotten eggs thrown at their faces! My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
