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Thought this might be of interest to people... ----- Forwarded message from Life <life@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -----
From: Life <life@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:38:30 +0000
Myself and a fellow Linux enthusiast (supported by some members of our community) have recently launched a new website over at http:// www.tlm-project.org (The Linux Mirror Project). We have noticed after downloading many distributions that many mirror servers used to provide Linux ISO images and distributions have a
tendancy
to max out at about 5k/s, and thus, it can take a long time to download
a
new distribution. Our goal is to create a network specifically to mirror the major Linux distributions and related material and hopefully serve out files at a decent speed. We will be using the often overlooked BitTorrent protocol
to
distribute these files, as this way, we dont have to rely too heavily on one centralized server and therefore will be relatively free of
bandwidth
limitations and any potential problem with server downtime. In case you are not familiar with the BitTorrent network, it works with the original host "seeding" out the file(s) to a few hosts, once these hosts start downloading and other hosts connect, the downloading users begin seeding chunks of their download out to hosts who require them, distributing the bandwidth very quickly and taking the load away from
the
original seeders. You soon end up with a large amount of users sharing chunks of these files between them, getting their download completed
alot
quicker than your average FTP / HTTP server. Now, although this is an ambitious project, the people behind it are devoted and driven to making it succeed, but we are still appealing for all the help we can get. Gentoo have already responded, along with a
few
small bandwidth providers and have expressed that they wish to help us with this, we will be talking with them all in the next week or two. We have a leased line to our server, but it is also used to host some community websites and projects, so any extra bandwidth that could be spared by an individual / organisation for any period of time would be greatly welcomed. The success of this project relies heavily on the
Linux
community, as we can only achieve so much alone. We are a completely non-profit organisation, we have no advertising banners or pop ups on our homepage, we just want to provide a good
service
to a great community that has already given us so much. We are hoping
you
could help us out in generating some interest in this project. Also, If your organisation, or any of your administration can donate any spare bandwidth to this cause no matter how small amount, even only for
a
limited time, we would be very appreciative and make sure your site is linked from our homepage. If you require anymore details or have any feedback to add, please do
not
hesitate to contact me on this address, or contact Matt: Matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks for your time. Ross. TLMP Admin. P.S. Please note, that at this present time, our HTTP server is under a fair amount of strain from users checking out the site, and as most of
our
bandwidth is being dedicated to seeding out the distribution ISO's, it
may
load slowly. This is a temporary problem, we are looking into
increasing
the bandwidth and should be resolved soon.
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