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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Would anyone be willing to host a second kernel.org site?
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:49:16PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The recent troubles we've had at kernel.org pretty much highlight the
> issues with having an offsite system with no easy physical access.
> This begs the question if we could establish another primary
> kernel.org site; this would not only reduce the load on any one site
> but deal with any one failure in a much more graceful way.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas of some organization who would be willing to
> host a second kernel.org server?  Such an organization should expect
> around 25 Mbit/s sustained traffic, and up to 40-100 Mbit/s peak
> traffic (this one can be adjusted to fit the available resources.)

We've priced this lately and I think the cheapest you are looking at is
around $6500/month for a 25Mbit connection.  That's not a huge amount of
money but it's enough that it shows up on people's radar screens as a line
item, it's $80K/year, so there would have to be some justification.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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