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meetthegimp.org needs help: Mirrors for the video archive

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meetthegimp.org needs help: Mirrors for the video archive meetthegimp.org 14 Nov 17:11
  meetthegimp.org needs help: Mirrors for the video archive redforce 15 Nov 14:14
  meetthegimp.org needs help: Mirrors for the video archive Marc Carson 15 Nov 16:51
meetthegimp.org
2009-11-14 17:11:16 UTC (about 15 years ago)

meetthegimp.org needs help: Mirrors for the video archive

Hi,

my server for the (mostly) weekly video podcast about GIMP (and other Open Source photography topics) at http://meetthegimp.org is coming to its limits.

The problem is not getting out the current episode (>4000 downloads in the week of publication) but the people who are downloading the whole archive of now 126 videos. This puts occasionally such a heavy load on the system that it gets unusable slow.

A lot of Open Source is mirrored at Universities and other institutions. I would love to get a home for the old episodes there too and then spread the load with a round robin system.

Any ideas how to achieve this?

Rolf

redforce
2009-11-15 14:14:16 UTC (about 15 years ago)
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meetthegimp.org needs help: Mirrors for the video archive

A lot of Open Source is mirrored at Universities and other institutions. I would love to get a home for the old episodes there too and then spread the load with a round robin system.

Any ideas how to achieve this?

Personally, I'd enforce BitTorrent even more and offer it as default download method (and write the http download smaller).

There are also services where you don't have to seed with your own server. For instance, there is Vuze (www.vuze.com) - you can upload the videos there, get a Torrent and they will host it. No ads, no fees.

Marc Carson
2009-11-15 16:51:49 UTC (about 15 years ago)

meetthegimp.org needs help: Mirrors for the video archive

Hi Rolf,

A lot of Open Source is mirrored at Universities and other institutions. I would love to get a home for the old episodes there too and then spread the load with a round robin system.

Any ideas how to achieve this?

Rolf

Try the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org. They freely host many other video podcasts, including some about open source software. When you visit the site, there is a green "Upload" button on the upper-right part of the page.

Good luck,

Marc