> Unfortunately, the people running plkr.org have said that they can't
> handle the load with a single-server paradigm; if you would like to put
> up a http: or ftp: mirror so that people won't have to start using
> bittorrent, they would appreciate this.
Exactly. Any additional mirrors are appreciated. The site actually
runs across a (relatively small) farm of about 6 servers, along with quite
a few other websites, projects, codebases, and other public and private
projects.
The main problem is the pipes themselves aren't large enough or
currently redundant enough, to handle the load. Plucker alone generates
between 3-4gb of downloads per day during the low between-release periods.
That's just one site out of about 20 hosted here, but it is the
most heavily-hit (average of 70,000 unique hits/week, based on the apache
stats). The pilot-link site, another site I host/maintain generates quite
a lot of traffic as well, mostly for the mailing lists and downloading
600k/release a few thousand times a day. We also handle J-Pilot's website
and mailing lists as well. Those only pull in about 10gb/month each,
though. Plucker is by-far the hardest hit.
Add to that, the http, cvs, mailing lists, and other hits coming
across the pipe, and it all adds up. I haven't aggregated the actual total
bytes across all traffic, but it's pretty steep. I used to have a mirror
in CA, but had to take it down because of cost concerns. It will be coming
back up in a few months at a new location/faster backbone, if all goes
well here. There's another mirror in Texas I'm working on trying to get
online. It'll happen, but it takes time.
I can easily put all of the standard links back up to the Plucker
release files, but everyone who wants to download would suffer as more and
more people requested the files. It gets exponentially worse as more and
more clients request downloads. BitTorrent is a way around that situation,
having the exact opposite effect.
If you want to see some of the stats for Plucker, http and
torrent, there are two status pages here:
http://plkr.org/dl/stats
http://torrents.plkr.org:8000/
d.
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