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greenfish

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From: eating fish in /dev/null

Registered: 2008-08-30

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Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

Hey, maybe a silly question

But ever since I've started with linux in 05, i've always wondered who pays for all the bandwidth as in where the binaries are hosted and source code. I'm just one user but i've probably downloaded a lot TB's since 05 for free.

I know there's various donation projects etc on most distributions, but that can't be enough to cover all the monthly downloads right?

I know bandwidth is cheap nowdays compared to say 10 years ago, but still i'm willing to bet the most used archlinux mirrors is generating a lot of load.

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kumyco

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From: somewhere

Registered: 2008-06-23

Posts: 153

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

my Imaginary Tech company, Akhemi Systems(me) pays for hosting/mirroring over 28,000 packages - snapshots dating back since august last year. .. it costs, um. over £100, i don't remember ..

iza

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2008-12-31

Posts: 44

Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

Some of the mirrors are hosted by universities.. not really sure what they have to gain from it.

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dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

Some of the mirrors are hosted by universities.. not really sure what they have to gain from it.

Promotion of Open Source Software. Everyone gains from it.

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greenfish

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From: eating fish in /dev/null

Registered: 2008-08-30

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

kumyco you're hosting archlinux main servers or rollbacks? Anyways I salute thee sir

Ah unis, should have known!

Thanks for the ups guys!

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kumyco

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Registered: 2008-06-23

Posts: 153

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

rollbacks Arch Rollback Machine(forgot the forum link) arm.nrk.cc

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

Yeah. Gotta love the universities. Especially when you're like me and have one only a few miles away hosting Arch, FreeBSD, KDEmod, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo... everything Hooray for downloading everything at 1MB/s (download cap)!

I would like to know though, where does the money for Arch's main server come from though? I know Arch takes donations, but how much has to be footed after that? Etc.

dolby

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From: 1992

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

Now that Obama is the president the bandwidth costs of all US linux distributions is paid by him. Just cause he is a nice guy and likes Linux and OSS.

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

If anything, shouldn't Arch be considered a Canadian distro?

As for archlinux.org costs, ftp.archlinux.org is throttled and there have been drives to get funds in the past.

Last edited by lucke (2009-05-18 08:06:55)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

@greenfish
Some sites run adds -> SF.
Some people/orgs do it just because they can :-D

I'm more concerned w/ poor devs, because hosting & hw is rather cheap.

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Last edited by karol (2009-05-18 15:07:30)

Anikom15

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Registered: 2009-04-30

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

Now that Obama is the president the bandwidth costs of all US linux distributions is paid by him. Just cause he is a nice guy and likes Linux and OSS.

Where did you find this out?

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haxit

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Registered: 2008-03-04

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

Just found this, its crazy: http://mirrors.163.com/

Who pays for that!

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DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

Just found this, its crazy: http://mirrors.163.com/

Who pays for that!

simple answer: http://whois.domaintools.com/163.com

haxit

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Registered: 2008-03-04

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Re: Repositories/Mirrors/FTP <-- who pays for the bandwidth?

Just found this, its crazy: http://mirrors.163.com/

Who pays for that!

simple answer: http://whois.domaintools.com/163.com

Notice how I didn't put a question mark

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