🚀 go-pugleaf

j.stokes@student.anu.edu.au (Jason Stokes) writes:

[...]

>I'm uncomfortable with the idea of throwing open exorbitant tolls and
>pay-per-download like the e-commerce people want, but some standard way of
>contributing very small amount of money (nanobucks) to offset the costs
>when you download would be invaluable and would stop the phenomenon of
>Internet databases being victims of their own success.

at last count, ftp.dstc was averaging > 100 Gigabytes/month in outbound
traffic of which the linux areas were about 35%.  That plus the inbound
traffic required to keep the mirrors up to date [which is where the
traffic charging comes in..]  put a reasonably high demand on our
network to the world.

archie.au looks as though it'll have buckets of cpu and disk, so potentially
this will help in terms of useful mirrors in .au.

-jason
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