> > Jörn, > > Thanks a lot for your generous offer. Last December, Ben Bloomberg also > offered hosting at MIT. So I'm thinking about a hosting model with > HTTP mirrors for more than 35Gb... > > With the HTTP mirroring model, there could be a possibility to > "auto-host" some files. Similarly to the BitTorrent model, the idea > would be to encourage participation in the mirroring effort, and let a > download manager decide what's the best source. Since there are ways to > setup a hybrid system with BitTorrent and direct HTTP downloads, maybe > it'd possible to benefit from both protocols, for robustness. >
It's over ten years since I did anything like this ... but if you keep ambisonia.com and/or www.ambisonia.com at York and create downloads.ambisonia.com then there is someway to use DNS to distribute calls to downloads.ambisonia.com between MIT and Jörn (and York?). The quick and dirty way is (if you are using Apache) is not to use DNS but to set up conditional redirects in the apache config file. (Conditional on geographic origin of client and/or estimated server loads.) DNS has the advantage that it allows a list of IP addreses in suggested order, so is more robust (if one of the two/three servers is playing up). All you need is root access to the York server ;-)> Do contact me direct if you want me to dig out some stuff, rather than top of the head memories ... Michael _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
