Looking for new archive.xfce.org mirrors

Lukasz Cepowski lukasz at cepowski.pl
Sat Jan 15 11:25:15 CET 2011


Hello,

I have a dedicated server that can be used as an xfce mirror :)
Server is located in France in OVH server farm.

Please let me know how can i became a mirror, is there any documentation?

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:29:47 +0100, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Xfce users,
> 
> Last week we've changed the mirror layout for archive.xfce.org, to
> avoid the downtime we had during the 4.6.0 release. We now have 3 good
> mirrors online in Europe (2 in Belgium and 1 in Sweden), 2 are in the
> process for the USA. All the websites moved to another, non-mirror,
> server.
> 
> This means we have Europe covered enough and North America is decent,
> but South America, Africa, Asia and Australia don't have their own
> mirrors yet.
> 
> So, if you have a good server that can host a mirror in these
> continents or know someone else, contact us!
> 
> These are the requirements:
> - Hourly sync over rsync.
> - Virtual-host setup to accept archive.xfce.org (for round-robin) and
> archive.XX.xfce.org (direct access).
> - The archive is currently ~6GB in size.
> - Should be hosted on a decent server with a good connection.
> - Data transfer is estimated at around 2,5GB a day (we've just started
> actually monitoring this and it will be higher during major releases).
> 
> Now you all know we're still on track to release Xfce 4.8.0 this
> weekend, so some additional mirrors are very welcome!
> 
> Cheers,
> The Xfce Development Team
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