Hi Michael. Thanks for your help.
I don't want to flood the list about this topic, but here's what I would use: http://mirrorbrain.org/ -- Marc Le Wed, 14 May 2014 08:11:15 -0000 (GMT), "Michael Chapman" <s...@mchapman.com> a écrit : > > > > > Jörn, > > > > Thanks a lot for your generous offer. Last December, Ben Bloomberg > > also offered hosting at MIT. So I'm thinking about a hosting model > > with HTTP mirrors for more than 35Gb... > > > > With the HTTP mirroring model, there could be a possibility to > > "auto-host" some files. Similarly to the BitTorrent model, the idea > > would be to encourage participation in the mirroring effort, and > > let a download manager decide what's the best source. Since there > > are ways to setup a hybrid system with BitTorrent and direct HTTP > > downloads, maybe it'd possible to benefit from both protocols, for > > robustness. > > > > It's over ten years since I did anything like this ... but > > if you keep ambisonia.com and/or www.ambisonia.com at York > > and create downloads.ambisonia.com > then there is someway to use DNS to distribute calls to > downloads.ambisonia.com between MIT and Jörn (and York?). > > The quick and dirty way is (if you are using Apache) is not to use > DNS but to set up conditional redirects in the apache config file. > (Conditional on geographic origin of client and/or estimated server > loads.) > > DNS has the advantage that it allows a list of IP addreses in > suggested order, so is more robust (if one of the two/three servers > is playing up). > > All you need is root access to the York server ;-)> > > Do contact me direct if you want me to dig out some stuff, rather > than top of the head memories ... > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
