[ossig] TM Net User Group Klang Valley

[Colin Charles]

Molly Cheah wrote:

> When the User Group is a little more settled and has its own web-portal, 
> I'm sure the different people who heads the different SIGS will engage 
> users in a more systematic manner than through this OSSIG list. However, 
> I would like Aizat to let me know as to the requirements if we are to 
> propose that TM Net host a local mirror site (similar to what Jaring is 
> doing) for OSS downloads. That way they'll save a lot of bandwidth if we 
> don't have to go overseas for our downloads and updates.

4 * 3000GB disks, rackspace, sensible small OS installation. use 
lighthttpd for HTTP, and then start mirroring. 1+ terabyte of space is 
quite a bit, mirror the popular ones:

	* Fedora
	* CentOS
	* FreeBSD
	* Ubuntu
	* Debian
	* Apache
	* MySQL
	* PHP
	* CPAN
	* Whatever else, by popular request

Sync it daily. Provide rsync access. This, if used a lot (will save even 
more bandwidth locally), will require some beefy CPU power. Have some 
amount of stock RAM in this box.

Its not rocket science to run a mirror. Allow the box to be growable 
(ideally, maybe to add 4 more disks in the near future)

This way people can point their apt lists to the streamyx mirror, or 
their yum lists or do a portsnap all via this wonderful new streamyx mirror

Remember the key to running a good mirror is to *be current*. Mirrors 
that hold content that are weeks old are useless. Syncing daily (and 
making sure this happens) is crucial

	/me continues dreaming for it...

p/s: not aizat, but hope this helps