[Bf-webcontent] Re: Fwd: Blender.org website section email

[Bart Veldhuizen]

The mirror system will be http (maybe ftp) based only, but it will be 
smart enough to figure out on which server a certain file is available. 
You can already see it in action here:

http://blender3d.org/mirror/release/Blender2.36/blender-2.36-windows.exe

Everything after /mirror/ is part of the filename to be mirrored. This 
means that once we start using the mirror script, we only need to put 
one download link in for each file.

The availability of files is cached, so it doesn't have to check the 
mirrors for each request. Checking is still quite slow, mainly because 
of the painfully slow ftp connection to umn.edu.

The fact that the script checks for itself which servers host a certain 
file means that mirrors can decide for themselves which files they will 
host or how much traffic/month they will allow. If they don't have a 
file, or they temporarily close their connection, the link will simply 
disappear.

We have decided to drop support for bittorrent files, at least for our 
own files, because so many people have difficulty with them. For this 
reason, I think we should move away from it all together IF we get 
enough mirror sites that are willing to host large media files.

Cheers,

Bart


Op 27-jan-05 om 1:01 heeft Glen Moyes het volgende geschreven:

> Sounds good. I hope the mirrors will be saved in some kind of 
> database. It's a real pain editing every paragraph individually on the 
> CMS whenever a mirror goes away or a new one is added. Oh, does this 
> also mean we'll have a torrent tracker? ;)
>
> BTW, I guess Dave Hope's server (Mirror 2 for the video tutorials) 
> still isn't up yet. I'll drop him a note to see whats up.
>
> - Glen
>
> Bart Veldhuizen wrote:
>
>> We are working on a mirroring system for the Blender downloads. Once 
>> we're good to go, I'll check to see if some of them are willing to 
>> mirror the video tutorials as well.
>>
>> Talking about video tutorials, I believe that I still need to finish 
>> some work for the tutorials section. I'll try to find some time soon! 
>> :)
>>
>
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