Good day, all, I'm running into a problem with the sa-blacklist content I host at http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/ . The box (*) is hosted at pa.net, a colo facility once employing a good friend. A new guy was going over the bandwidth stats and noticed that that machine hogs the available bandwidth on its ethernet segment for a few minutes after each hour as people download the sa-blacklist. I asked him what kind of bandwidth he'd ideally like that system to use, and how much I'm using at the moment. I should be using around 10G/month. I'm currently using 1TB/month. Oops. I'm not in imminent danger of being kicked off their cable, but both they and I agree that I need to do something differently. I could put another physical box at another ISP with unlimited bandwidth, but I'm already paying around $1500/year to host the site, and am reluctant to double that. Because that box hosts 27 virtual machines, moving it is a project that would need a few months of lead time to arrange, and would be a nightmare in itself.

It would be great if someone already has enough bandwidth to host the content on a different cable, but I think people with a terabyte/month to spare may be rare. *smile* If you've got some bandwidth you could share, would you consider doing round-robin with me with the content? 10 sites spreading the load would have 100GB/month, or an average of about 300 kilobits/sec. 20 sites sould be half that each, and so on. I'd need to upload content via rsync over ssh. The actual content is published via web, rsync, and ftp, although I could easily set up www.sa-blacklist.stearns.org for the sites willing to share over http, rsync.sa-blacklist.stearns.org, for the sites willing to share over rsync, and ftp.sa-blacklist.stearns.org.

If you can spare some bandwidth, please respond. Let me know what you can spare in average kilobits/sec. That way, if only 10 people respond and one of them can provide 100 kilobits/sec, I'll know not to include that person in the mirror until I can get 30 people.

If you can take part, I'd be forever grateful. *sincere smile* Cheers, - Bill

* http://www.stearns.org/slartibartfast/uml-coop.current.html

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