SourceForge.net mirror in SA
(Jan Vermeulen - MyBroadband | 14 March, 2011)
SourceForge.net, the website that houses popular open source software such as VLC media player, the Azuereus/Vuze BitTorrent client and the Pidgin instant messaging program, is now mirrored in South Africa thanks to TENET.
TENET is the Tertiary Education Network of South Africa whose main purpose is to secure Internet and information technology services for the benefit of South African universities.
Andrew Alston, TENET's chief technology officer, said that the local mirror is 14 terabytes (TB) big and took three days to download.
SourceForge.net is considered the largest open source software development website in the world and at the time of publication claimed to host over 260,000 projects (though not all are considered active) and serve more than 2 million downloads a day.
According to Alston it was a “hugely complicated process” for TENET to be able to provide an official mirror for SourceForge.net.
TENET's senior service support officer, Len Lotz, was involved in many back and forth negotiations until the contractual elements of the agreement were sorted out, Alston explained.
Once the agreements were in place TENET synchronised their mirror against the Irish academic image – a 14TB download that took 3 days to complete.
The mirror went live over the weekend, Alston said, seeing its first hits late on Saturday.
Alston added that they performed the necessary capacity upgrades to their server to ensure the it could handle the additional load before the mirror went live.
Currently the mirror server has 64GB RAM (random access memory), two 6-core Intel Xeon processors and 49TB hard drive space.
The hard drive space will be upgraded in the next week or two to 69TB, Alston said. This is to accommodate the other content hosted on the server.
Other open source archives are hosted on the same server, Alston explained. These include an Ubuntu archive and releases mirror, a FreeBSD mirror, an OpenSUSE mirror , the human genome dataset and a bioinformatics mirror.
(Original article may be found here : http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/19073-SourceForgenet-mirror.html)
SourceForge.net, the website that houses popular open source software such as VLC media player, the Azuereus/Vuze BitTorrent client and the Pidgin instant messaging program, is now mirrored in South Africa thanks to TENET.
TENET is the Tertiary Education Network of South Africa whose main purpose is to secure Internet and information technology services for the benefit of South African universities.
Andrew Alston, TENET's chief technology officer, said that the local mirror is 14 terabytes (TB) big and took three days to download.
SourceForge.net is considered the largest open source software development website in the world and at the time of publication claimed to host over 260,000 projects (though not all are considered active) and serve more than 2 million downloads a day.
According to Alston it was a “hugely complicated process” for TENET to be able to provide an official mirror for SourceForge.net.
TENET's senior service support officer, Len Lotz, was involved in many back and forth negotiations until the contractual elements of the agreement were sorted out, Alston explained.
Once the agreements were in place TENET synchronised their mirror against the Irish academic image – a 14TB download that took 3 days to complete.
The mirror went live over the weekend, Alston said, seeing its first hits late on Saturday.
Alston added that they performed the necessary capacity upgrades to their server to ensure the it could handle the additional load before the mirror went live.
Currently the mirror server has 64GB RAM (random access memory), two 6-core Intel Xeon processors and 49TB hard drive space.
The hard drive space will be upgraded in the next week or two to 69TB, Alston said. This is to accommodate the other content hosted on the server.
Other open source archives are hosted on the same server, Alston explained. These include an Ubuntu archive and releases mirror, a FreeBSD mirror, an OpenSUSE mirror , the human genome dataset and a bioinformatics mirror.
(Original article may be found here : http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/19073-SourceForgenet-mirror.html)
Johann