On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:24:47AM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
>>
>> > could do pub/av section on the ftp server easily enough ... then no one site
>> > would be "hit" for the bandwidth ...
>>
>> What worries me about that is when files start to get much bigger than
>> 100MB, or a bunch are added at once (think 2 day conference with a
>> dozen or more hour long talks), when they get uploaded to the ftp
>> site, within a 24 hour window we'll get around 100 mirrors all trying
>> to rsync them at once - probably far more bandwidth than people
>> actually viewing the stuff!
>>
>> We have plenty of spare hardware atm (we have 4 new boxes coming
>> online at the moment with very good connectivity) - we can easily
>> setup a dedicated server for this, or I kinda like Marc's YouTube
>> idea.
>
> We have an offer from RackSpace for some cloud storage. Initially that was
> for internal access only, but we could always talk to them and see if they
> can provide it with external access as well.
We can keep that for the backups. We've got plenty of real hardware we
can use for podcasts if need be.
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Dave Page
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