Lionel Siau wrote:
> My two cents,
>
> I don't really know the setup for SLP, what machine and where and whose pipe but
> perheps the requests for sponsorship should be more invigorated? The ISP's, SCV,
> SONE and StarHub(?) all have spare capacity(but don't let them stick u in a
> server farm with a 10 Mbps line). The trick is to convince them to let them host
> SLP for "FREE". I'm sure they have plans on introducing linux support soon, so
> SLP might want to start badgering them about it. In return, advertising space or
> recommendations could be directed to their service.
> Web hosting is solvable but the FTP space/bandwidth would not be easy.
We have no problems with ftp space (though Elvin may beg
to differ), we have about 16 G + maybe some more to spare for
pure ftp mirrors.
Our site is situated at 1 Net.
>
>
> Lionel
>
> > Alf wrote:
> >
> > > But who would lend us the fat pipe ? It's not cheap you know ? The
> > > same way as 1-net doesn't get a fat pipe.. The few options we have is..
> > > Get WebWorks to lend us their 64k pipe *grin*
> > > Get the LUGS pipe.. 28.8K pipe *evil grin*
> > > And the our cable modem as proxies. *evil evil grin*
> > > U get the picture ?
> >
> > Have you setup ftp proxy before? Set it up
> > on my machine and ftp all the cool stuff using
> > my machine as the ftp proxy.
> >
> > I am using cable modem, so it is better than
> > Webworks's 64 k or LUGS pipe.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Elvin
> > > -
>
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