On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 02:11, Alex Pleiner wrote:
> * Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-24 20:10]:
> > Any chance of mirroring some of those other .cf files found
> > on merchantsoverseas.com, on alex.zeitform.de?
> 
> I have already considered offering Chris a mirror for his whole site,
> but haven't discussed this with him yet. The problem is that we have to
> pay for traffic, so I want to monitor the traffic generated by the
> bigevil.cf mirror for some weeks. If it stays below a painful limit, I
> would be glad to give further support. (There are guys with phasers
> behind me, too. ;-)
> 

Have you guys thought of using round-robin DNS?  sare.org is taken, but
maybe sarules.org?  

We could have www.sarules.org be a web page that links to all the rules
at update.sarules.org/sarules/download/.  This would be the only server
that needs VirutalHost support.  

update.sarules.org would be round-robin DNS that rotates between 5-10
mirror servers.  The requirements for a mirror would be pretty low: T1
line or greater, reliable, the ability to create a /sarules/download
directory, wget, and the ability to add a cron job.  The ability to
create a VirtualHost isn't required, since only the /sarules/download
directory would be accessed (and never the web root /).  

Automatic-update-script writers could just hardcode the
update.sarules.org/sarules/update URL into their scripts, and we can
add/remove mirrors simply by updating the DNS.  

- Jon

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