Always happy for more mirrors, but I can tell you first hand that my mirror (mirror.hessmo.com), ec2 east zone, gets very little traffic.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:29 PM Pallissard, Matthew < matthew.paul@pallissard.net> wrote:

Hey,
I just saw how you guys are all over the internet about your software being distributed.

Are you in need in any more mirrors (Miami, Fl United States) or are you under-utilizing your resources as is?

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On 06/01/2015 10:01 PM, Pallissard, Matthew wrote:

Hi Matthew,

I just saw how you guys are all over the internet about your software being distributed.

Yeah. Especially when it happens in unexpected ways, from sites one has long since abandoned and considered to be in an immutable state...

Are you in need in any more mirrors (Miami, Fl United States) or are you under-utilizing your resources as is?

We can certainly use more up-to-date mirrors, thanks.

What's currently not as good as it should be:

1. Delays...

Sometimes people who offer mirrors wait a long time before we add them. I consider this my fault, because it depends on my available time, but I also don't ask for help with that...

2. Using the mirrors, actually...

What we are doing with mirrors right now? We give them rsync access, and include them in the list of mirrors on our downloads pages.

Most mirrors, but not all of them - and unfortunately some of the currently still outdated ones - are also listed as web seeds in our torrent files, as fallback if no other seeders are available.

There's currently no real way for users to select a different mirror to download a file (other than navigating through their directory structure themselves), and rebuilding the torrent files would also have to be done manually right now.

I know that this can be solved by using tools like e.g. mirrorbrain, but I am shying away from installing any running dynamic stuff for all user accesses download.gimp.org server :)

Regards,
Michael
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I'd be game to participate in a dns round robin for downloads.gimp.org. Nothing dynamic having to run on your webserver, and it would automatically split the load up.

Anything I can do to help the project basically. Right now I seed the torrents as well as the web mirror, and the torrents easily have 100x as much traffic as my mirror.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:31 PM Michael Schumacher wrote:

On 06/01/2015 10:01 PM, Pallissard, Matthew wrote:

Hi Matthew,

I just saw how you guys are all over the internet about your software being distributed.

Yeah. Especially when it happens in unexpected ways, from sites one has long since abandoned and considered to be in an immutable state...

Are you in need in any more mirrors (Miami, Fl United States) or are you under-utilizing your resources as is?

We can certainly use more up-to-date mirrors, thanks.

What's currently not as good as it should be:

1. Delays...

Sometimes people who offer mirrors wait a long time before we add them. I consider this my fault, because it depends on my available time, but I also don't ask for help with that...

2. Using the mirrors, actually...

What we are doing with mirrors right now? We give them rsync access, and include them in the list of mirrors on our downloads pages.

Most mirrors, but not all of them - and unfortunately some of the currently still outdated ones - are also listed as web seeds in our torrent files, as fallback if no other seeders are available.

There's currently no real way for users to select a different mirror to download a file (other than navigating through their directory structure themselves), and rebuilding the torrent files would also have to be done manually right now.

I know that this can be solved by using tools like e.g. mirrorbrain, but I am shying away from installing any running dynamic stuff for all user accesses download.gimp.org server :)

-- Regards,
Michael
GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD

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