Legacy going to move...?

[Jim Richardson]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:00:30PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
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>On Friday 02 April 2004 12:00, Jim Richardson wrote:
>> What's "web developement?" exactly?
>
>Making web pages, making images, uploading docs, etc...
>

I can assist with that. Who do I talk to? Eric? 

>> I might be able to scare up some space, how much is needed for a
>> mirror? Bandwidth is more of an issue frankly. One server I have is
>> pretty underutilised b/w wise, and I can push it as support for the
>> FL systems we have :)
>
>Bandwidth needs are pretty intense.  Consider that at least somebody
>once a week is going to get the bright idea to pull down the entire
>tree, some 5~ GB worth of data.  Invariably, this person will be on
>broadband, and thus will use every ounce of your available upstream to
>pull it down ):  You can throttle and such, but still people will want
>to download.  Most mirrors you find out there are University like folks
>that have bandwidth to spare.
>

That could be a problem, I mean, we have ~1TB/Mo available, but we are
using in excess of half that now. I don't think I could convince the
powers that be to pay for extra b/w for this :) sad to say. 

Anyone use mod_throttle ? Would that work for this?  

>> Do you have someone to coordinate volunteer efforts? or is this
>> fairly ad-hoc? (speaking of which, I haven't been to the website for
>> FL in a while...hang on) Looks like there's a decent page for help
>> stuff.
>
>We don't have any coordinated efforts just yet.  Most things come
>through me.  Eric Rostetter is currently in charge of the website, we
>both work on it together.  (Well he works on it, I say "wow, that looks
>great!").
>

It is a nicely done site, and deals well with me pumping up the font
size due to the 1600x1200 screen on this laptop. 


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Jim Richardson     http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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