Hi All,
There has been some discussion regarding hosting of Dutty's ROM's since bandwidth usage has become an issue. Lots have people have jumped in offering to host files, which is great!
Between all of us who benefit from this site, and the hard work of all the chefs, we should set up a file mirroring service?
I'm actually in the hosting industry, and can contribute quite a bit to this, however it's would certainly be better to have as many servers sharing the load as possible.
Just Kaiser CAB's and ROM's to begin with, until we get an ideal of bandwidth usage.
I'm happy to set it all up, and work with others who are willing to help.
I'd suggest we have one master server where chefs can upload their files. Each night at 1am we can rsync files out to all the other servers.
I have a nice script that will dish out encoded download URL's evenly so load gets shared out across all servers.
What do you think?
Potential Mirrors:
mattpark- Most London DC's, Databanx Newcastle, plenty of bandwidth
jagofulford - Uk based (docklands), 100Mb/s Connection, 10Tb Bandwidth per month
Once I have worthy list, I'll get about setting all this up, and will PM those who have expressed an interest.
Any chef's out there who would like to register their interest in uploading their files to a mirror PM me.
Cheers,
Matt
This sounds like a fantastic idea to host all the ROMs in one location, and hopefully ease any burden on cooks distributing their good work. While I can't cook a ROM, I can offer hosting:
Uk based (docklands), 100Mb/s Connection, 10Tb Bandwidth per month
I hope this is of some use, PM me if it's required.
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Uk based (docklands), 100Mb/s Connection, 10Tb Bandwidth per month
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Awesome.
I'm in multiple DC's with a wide range of kit and connectivity.
I'll start a list for easy reference.
Moved it up to post number 2-------^
Few more mirrors needed before this takes off...?
I currently have a server I have been paying for as well as a domain. Honestly I use about 5% of the monthly bandwidth limit and 1% or less of storage. If you guys want to upload to it I can make a generic FTP section for you and we can have alot faster downloads for these roms and excellent upload speeds to the server. Msg me or email me @ jeremy.marrel93 @gmail.com
Hi there!
I currently have some bandwidth left and I think it can be useful for some developers out there.
It is being hosted on a Linux server and files are backed-up weekly.
1 GB space
Unlimited bandwidth
FTP credentials
Ad-Free and nothing asked in return.
Just reply if you want it and I'll decide who gets it.
Hi all,
I'm looking for some supplemental income, and I am putting together a business plan to get funding with some dev friends to build a few apps. Starting slowly. I'm a finance guy, but I do write SQL and VBA. I'd probably be more the idea guy and marketing person if this works. What I'm looking for are some really good guides to get started. I believe I will need a client sharable cheap backend database to store information, I already have a huge NAS cloud drive to store and use to access data. I'm curious what are the best DB's out there for this kind of thing. I am a pro user at Access, but that's not so good for this, I hear. Are there some good guides? Anyone know about Kivney.com or something? Or a good book to get started? My friends are all pro devs, but to get them on board, I am going to have to kick this off.
I need a DB to store data for users, a GUI, and let the users change their range of infos on the fly with a front end computer app.. then have the data wireless transfered to some sort of client reciever.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Josh
I have the support of a major enterprise CDN company to help open source projects and developers with free unlimited CDN hosting.
A few questions would help me figure out how to start.
Do you have issues with distributing your work at the moment?
Would you be interested to use a CDN to distribute your work? (roms/mods/themes..)
What is the average filesize of the files you plan to host?
What is the total amount of storage you would need?
How much traffic can you generate in a month?
What would be your preferred method of upload? (ftp/rsync/web)
What other features you would like to see?
The only thing needed from you would be to put a few links somewhere, mention the project or even add a banner.
Tell me your thoughts on this.
Thanks