From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Magnus Therning Subject: Re: XCP Downloading and Xen.org Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:45:20 +0000 Message-ID: <4B7585A0.1080602@eu.citrix.com> References: <652FFB2C8F91E3428799B1FFF8B490C9726C8E7F07@FTLPMAILBOX01.citrite.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <652FFB2C8F91E3428799B1FFF8B490C9726C8E7F07-7ismNY5x4TfeU4JHVX8hdHnr0TU713UqXqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-api-bounces-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org Errors-To: xen-api-bounces-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org To: "xen-users-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org" Cc: "xen-devel-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org" , "xen-api-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 11/02/10 19:29, Stephen Spector wrote: > Xen Community: > > As you are aware, the Xen Cloud Platform has been available for download > since last November and is becoming a very successful release for > Xen.org. In fact, we are seeing substantial network traffic for this > solution as we had 26 TB of data from XCP downloads in the past 4 weeks. > Of course, this amount of traffic is forcing a re-examination of our > co-location agreements as we are moving toward the limit of our monthly > bandwidth and may face substantial increases in costs as XCP continues > to find new users. > > I have a proposal to move the XCP iso images to bittorrent for > downloads, thereby reducing the bandwidth pressure on the Xen.org > website. I am looking for community feedback on this idea and look > forward to your thoughts. AFAIK it's fairly common for companies to put restrictions on use of p2p protocols like bittorrent. Also, if I'm not mistaken, not much is gained by this move if xen.org turns out the be the only usable seed :-) I suspect what would really be needed are a few mirrors. Cheers, M -- Magnus Therning magnus.therning-mvvWK6WmYclDPfheJLI6IQ@public.gmane.org Jabber: magnusth@eng There does not now, nor will there ever, exist a programming language in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs. -- Flon's Axiom