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In article <555878$6lo@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>,
David Conran <lucifer@maths.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>j.stokes@student.anu.edu.au (Jason Stokes) writes:
>
>>In article <554ctl$j35@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>, lucifer@maths.uq.edu.au (David
>>Conran) wrote:
>
>>: It costs money/time/effort to maintain a ftp site, and it is pretty hard
>>: to charge for it to re-coup money, you can't advertise as well as you can
>>: on www on ftp :)
>>: Love and voulenteers soon run out of steam.
>
>>Lots of people run ftp sites for all kinds of motivations - anti-cultists
>>run ftp sites because they want to spread the word about cults.  I don't
>>think it's likely the problem is lack of volunteers - hell, I'd volunteer
>>to run a linux ftp site if it would help.
>
>Be sure of what you are saying/offering before you do :)
>Having setup the linux mirror at ftp.dstc.edu.au (yes .. it was my baby)
>I can tell you, a *lot* of effort goes in to maintain it. Much more
>than you imagine.
>
[snip]

A belated thanks for your efforts, David! 

I suggest to anyone who is thinking of mirroring Linux that
they consider using a Linux box. ftp.cdrom.com is based on Pentiums.
CTAN.unsw.edu.au is also a Pentium based mirror running Linux (Debian
1.1). For a 10GB mirror the Pentium hardware is under $3000 and the
software is free. 

We do not backup CTAN, it is a mirror not an archive.  Index and ls-lR
files are locally generated after the ls-lR.Z file is downloaded from
ftp.tex.ac.uk. We use a similar technique with our partial mirror of
Debian. 

-- 
Regards,
Ian Maclaine-cross (ian@ilm.mech.unsw.edu.au)