new porstnap mirror

[Xin LI]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Dimitar Vasilev
<dimitar.vassilev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Does anyone has an idea what is the procedure for becoming a portsnap
> mirror?
> Have written on this topic to cperciva@, but no feedback yet.
> Thanks.

portsnap mirrors would consume some thousands of times of bandwidth
that a normal client would typically use.  Therefore, you may need to
prove the usefulness (i.e. Internet access is very slow in your
country and having a local portsnap mirror would significantly improve
the users' experience, etc, and you really have so many users).

For small to medium sized enterprise/countries, a possible alternative
would be to do this with reverse HTTP proxy which caches these files.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net