Finding Mirrors for the evolt Browser Archive? 32
MartinB asks: "I help out running evolt.org, and one of the things we provide is a comprehensive
browser archive, with over 100 different browsers, some in multiple platforms and versions, going right back to Mosaic 0.4. This is both a piece of web history, and a resource that lets developers test their sites on browsers which vendors don't offer for download any more. We have an expensive problem - the browser archive chews through 140GB of bandwidth a month and growing, even though we've throttled the FTP server and restricted the maxclients. How do we find people who provide mirrors like these and get browsers.evolt.org spread across lots of hosts?" If you would like to mirror this valuable net resource, please volunteer here (or drop a line to the original submitter)
This won't help. (Score:5, Funny)
For about the next day or too you can count on that getting a little bit more expensive.
I hope they find someone, the archive is pretty useful.
Re:This won't help. (Score:2)
Thanks for your kind words about the archive, we'd hate to lose it.
.edu sites (Score:3, Insightful)
Get a dedicated at RackShack (Score:2, Informative)
why not use something like edonkey (Score:1)
Long-Term Solution: P2P (Score:2)
The web site that offers the software would use a link like:
p2p://www.mysite.org/p2p/package7.xml
The above file would be an XML file describing a given package. It would be downloaded using http, but then automatically go and start using the resulting file to search for and download the actual package. The XML file would give the MD5 sum for the entire package, as well as for each 1MB chunk. A P2P network would be used to search for and download chunks based on their MD5 sum. The client would verify the sums and reconstruct the package.
Now all you need to do is get some site to share some of your more popular files.
Re:Long-Term Solution: P2P (Score:2)
Re:Long-Term Solution: P2P (Score:1)
ibiblio? (Score:2, Informative)
Try... (Score:1)
funet (Score:2)
I don't how easy or hard it is to get a mirror from them - but ftp.funet.fi has always been my favorite high speed mirror. It has been the most stable, reliable, and high-speed mirror I've used for downloading various stuff over the past 8 years or so, and they mirror *tons* of useful things on the net.
Let the wayback machine archive it (Score:1)
Re:Let the wayback machine archive it (Score:2)
Just text and graphics? No problem. (Score:1)
Web Designers (Score:2, Insightful)
Local Copies? (Score:1)
For example,large web development companies could put a copy on one of their servers for all of their developers to access. The PHB's might not want to share their bandwidth with the world, but with it on one of their servers, you could reduce *your* load caused by those developers.
Maybe a lone developer could just set it up on their machine to run tests.
It is a really great service and I'd love it if more web developers would use it.
For mirrors, I agree with the other posters here that you should check out CPAN, php, apache etc and email the administrators of those mirrors. Universities are usually pretty good about sharing the bandwidth.
<sigh> I miss the Internet2 connections at UCLA </sigh>
Re:Local Copies? (Score:1)
The site was slashdotted and I was confusing it with DejaVu [dejavu.org]
Move along...
UK Mirror Service (Score:2, Informative)
They will probably mirror something like this.
My recommendation: eDonkey2000 (Score:2, Insightful)
EDonkey Homepage [edonkey2000.com]
ML donkey homepage (my preferred Linux client) [gnu.org]
Re:My recommendation: eDonkey2000 (Score:2)
Put out the vast majority of the archive *only* on Freenet. A nice big distributed caching proxy network, browsable with a web browser, and growing in content every day....and it could use a valuable, exclusive resource like your own.
Legality (Score:2)
I've noticed that alot of free-to-download software comes with EULA restrictions prohibiting you from redistributing them. I'm not sure about old browsers, but I would hardly be suprised if you are probhibited from disributing them, even though they are abandonware.
bandwidth usage (Score:1)
Cheaper Hosting (Score:2)
Sure, you might be their first customer, but they seem to be on the up-and-up. Look here for more info: http://www.sanethosting.com/ [sanethosting.com].
Charge for the bandwidth (Score:3, Insightful)
Supporting free speech doesn't mean that you're obligated to go into your own pocket to provide everyone with free beer.