Re: Landover's FTP server

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From: Lance Lyon
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:36

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"Ian Rawlings" <news05@tarcus.org.uk> wrote in message 
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> On 2005-04-13, Lance Lyon <landover@nospamme.tpg.com.au> wrote:

Hi Ian,

> I noticed you split the archive up into lots of little torrents, I'd
> have thought it would reduce your bandwidth load if you'd made a few
> large torrents as there's then a greater chance of people downloading
> the same thing at the same time (and therefore downloading off each
> other rather than you).  It would also make it easier for you to
> admin!  If I'm right on that (I'm not 100% sure), it might be worth
> considering making later torrents larger.
>
> Cheers for the archive though, looks very valuable!


I had originally thought to do each section as one very large archive, but 
decided to do the individual directories - that way people who only want one 
thing aren't forced to wade through thousands of files (just wait until I 
put up the 20,000 or so C64 games & you'll see what I mean).

cheers,

Lance


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