Whats invloved in becoming a mirror for a linux distro, I have a domain with 10000MB of space and 10000MB of bandwith, would this be suitiable for putting a distro on?

any thoughts/comments?

That seems ok for small downloads, but distros take up a lot of space and just a few downloads will max your bandwith in no time.

you have a 10 Gigabit internet connection?!?!?!

no.. speed is measured in Mb or Gb not MB or GB.
Did you spot the capital B? B = Bytes, b means bits.
so, 10000MB(yte) of bandwith means 10GB(yte) traffic may be transferred over the internet connection per interval (mostly this interval is a month).
this doesn't say anything about the speed of the connection (called uplink) itself.
(e.g. 10Mb(its) of 100Mb(its) or 1 Gb(its) uplinks.)


As for the first question, i don't think it's wise to start a public mirror if you have bandwith limitations. I would personally hate it when a public mirror suddenly stops feeding me a download or a index of downloads.
Mirrors should allways be aviable for downloads. It shouldn't matter how many uploads it needs to do each day (e.g 1Mb(bit) traffic = 320 GB(yte) or even 2 or more Gb(bit)'s a day)..

That's why most quality mirrors are donated by ISP's or a University.
Those companies have unlimited bandwith and a fast (mostly redundant) uplink hooked on the mirror server(s).


furthermore, one needs to have rsync possibilities often (to sync from the masterservers), this means shell access. Most shared hosting packages don't allow you to do so. I don't know your situation, but i assume it's shared.
Also setting up some special DNS and ftpserver setups are required sometimes.

Finally, i'm pleased to read, someone is wanting to become a mirror for Linux project(s) like distro's.

seeing as a wholly doubt a 1Gbit connection anyway, i hardly think that the case of an m is valid....

i can't make bread out of your post.. what do you ment with your reply? *no offence*

so the short answer is no? I have just had a closer look and I have 100GB of bandwith

I was only intrested as I noticed a some of the slackware mirrors were not working the other day.

Short answer is indeed no, but the longer answer might be yes.
confusing? depends. Some distro's are not very popular, so the bandwith usage is much lower as the mirrors for big distros.
One other thing that might make it a YES:
Some distros have a huge list of mirrors (categorised into countries).
So if there are many mirrors in your country, your mirror will have less bandwith usage to give.
So besides the earlier reply of mine, It also depends on the popularity and the count of mirrors aviable in your country.

you do NOT have 100GB of bandwidth! you might have a 100Gb monthly throughput limit, but that is SO SO not bandwidth. I would wonder wether the entire intenet connections in England add up to 100Gb.

well you know what I meant