On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:20:21 -0500 Gerald Combs [email protected] wrote:
They _can't_ afford the bandwidth. SourceForge and Gentoo in particular rely heavily on mirrors. I wouldn't be surprised if the bandwidth for the other projects was donated or subsidized by a third party.
Every project of any size relies on mirrors. What I meant by afford was "what they are currently doing works", not that they were able to support all of their bandwidth costs financially.
I don't neccessarily want them to, I just want to know why they aren't. If you could save bandwidth costs or avoid the hassle of administering mirrors by setting up a BT feed, why wouldn't you? From Ethereal's perspective, doing this would be a no-brainer - even our modest-in-comparison bandwidth requirements cost a fair amount of money per month. I'm just wondering why it isn't common practice.
I think it's more of a marketshare deal. Not everyone has a BT client or is familiar/comfortable with it. Everyone who is going to download a open source project can use a browser and most likely an FTP client.
That and the "what we are currently doing works" so let's not put resources toward setting up a BT feed when that time could be better spent setting up another solid mirror, coding, documentation, etc.
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