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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:31:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Subject: Re: Would anyone be willing to host a second kernel.org site?
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> 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.

Yep.  I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free."  They've obviously
never bought anything from UUNet.  At any rate, a full DS3 (45mbps) will
run between 7k and 20k USD per _month_.  Last time I checked, kernel.org
didn't have the funds for 7k/year much less per month.

Server colocation is a far cheaper solution, but then they have the
same problems they have now... limited access to the hardware when something
goes wrong (and it always does.)

--Ricky


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