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Hey list, I'm just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of a mirror that doesn't suck.

I generally don't do alot with postgres other than downloading and installing the newest releases.
Everytime there is a release, it takes forever for it to show up on an ftp server.
This is in the case that the ftp server even works. Now in a case where onelikes to browse with the browser of their choice, it totally blows becauseit's _so_ slow.

So is there maybe an http download somewhere? Or an FTP site that doesn't give me an "directory doesn't exist" error, or one that has more than 15k available, or one that maybe has the newest releases(7.4.1) ? All of those would be perfect...

Dan

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Nov 12 '05
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It's rumoured that Brian Hirt once said:
What type bandwidth can you
expect to use if you become a mirror (1meg/sec? more less?)
I honestly couldn't say, but I would suspect it would be a *lot* less than
that. Whilst PostgreSQL is popular, the type of application that it is
means that it will never get anything remotely like the level of downloads
of say, Mozilla or OpenOffice. Also are
http mirrors acceptable?
Currently only to mirror the web content (this is mainly because the
mirror code expects an ftp mirror to use ftp and a web mirror to use http
- changing this would require a fair bit of recoding). I would like to offer up one of our servers
on mobygames.com because I love postgresql and it would be a way to
help out a bit, but I don't really know enough about the requirements
right now.

Who should i talk to?
Me please. I'll need your server IP, and the IP of whatever boxes will be
used to rsync the content. For web mirrors you must be able to setup a
virtual host, for ftp, I alsoneed to know the path to the content (eg.
/pub/postgresql/) However, there are already 7 US mirrors.


There's closer to 20, but most are not active :-(

Regards, Dave.

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