cvs commit: www/en index.xsl www/share/sgml includes.misc.sgml includes.misc.xsl

[Erwin Lansing]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:22:38PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > 
> > I had considered that, but I really really want something that I can
> > just click on without having to read anything first.
> 
> _Personally_ I think the list in the "Distribution Sites" section of
> where.html is fine for that purpose, of course it's one click away,
> but you can still just get to the files rather quickly without the
> need to read the rest of the page.
> 
> > I think that ISC can take the beating, but if they say otherwise...
> 
> I don't actually know about the ISC mirror, but I know that the
> TDC(/Danish) part of the mirror get a pretty hefty beating around
> release time.
> 
It wasn't actually so bad here for the last release and we can handle a
beating, I can't speak for ISC though, but AFAIK they can handle quite
some traffic as well.

But on principle, I have to agree with Simon that we need to distribute
the load as much as possible over the geographical mirrors. The only
technical solutions that do work that I know of are (expensive) commercial
services like Akamai. Of course there are middleways like using top
level domains, but they don't really work in practice. So the best
solution that I see is for the users themselves to choose a mirror
closest to them, and if that's only one click more, that sounds like a
good deal to me.

-erwin

-- 
                    _._     _,-'""`-._
Erwin Lansing      (,-.`._,'(       |\`-/|    erwin at lansing.dk
http://droso.org       `-.-' \ )-`( , o o)    erwin at FreeBSD.org
                    -bf-      `-    \`_`"'-
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/attachments/20050101/a0c01f9c/attachment.bin