Re: [tdf-mirrors] Mirroring DVD/CD ISO files

On 1/26/11 9:45 AM, Christian Rohmann wrote:
> Good morning
>
> On 01/26/2011 09:13 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > For the DVD's why not instead of pulling them to the mirrors offer them
> > as torrents?
> 1) To lower the bar for ppl to install LibreOffce I'd not JUST do
> torrent. Most endusers prefer a click to download something, sometimes a
> firewall/proxy even forbids anything else but HTTP downloads.
>
> 2) If torrents are done, they could be backed by a few high bandwidth
> webservers (mirrors then) via http seeds. This would always give you
> quite fast downloads and still saves some bandwidth on the mirrors.
>
> 3) With adaption of LibreOffice from more and more Linux distros the
> direct downloads will then go to the package repos of those distros.
>
> 4) Currently I don't see much bandwith from tdf though ... why not worry
> about it if one can see results from changes (like introducing torrents
> when there are LOTS of big downloads from DVD-ISOs). Also the use of
> mirrorbrain sends users to the "closest" mirror, so it's not traffic
> being sent around the world all the time.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian
Christian would torrents eventually be offered once traffic increases?

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