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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

mirrors.kernel.org is down because it threw 2 disks in a RAID-6 array and then ground itself to a halt. I'm trying to resuscitate it. Please use mirrors.edge.kernel.org (it's pointing at our only remaining server that is now up, in Amsterdam).

We need more redundancy for these systems. After exiting Equinix, we are reduced to just 2 nodes (and hence, we're now down to 1 until I rebuild the RAID array on the one that's currently offline).

If you can donate us a server with at least 70TB of space and lots of bandwidth, I'd like to hear from you, but it has to come with hosting, as we don't have any physical datacentres any more and must rely on the kindness of strangers to host them.
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@monsieuricon a quarter-billion dollar a year revenue, non-public-benefit, organization is asking for free hosting?

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@luis_in_brief kernel.org is a charitable organization and mirrors.kernel.org is a community service that falls outside of the main scope of kernel.org duties.
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@monsieuricon how much bandwidth is lots?
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@palmer It will eat all available bandwidth.
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@monsieuricon @palmer well, in that case, what's the expectation of available bandwidth?

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@luis_in_brief @monsieuricon I also don't understand why the Linux Foundation wouldn't easily donate this and more??

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@monsieuricon seems like something @hetzner would be able to easily sponsor, right? :)

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@monsieuricon
Are torrents useful here? I can seed a few but I'm assuming the requests aren't that type of traffic

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@monsieuricon
"Dear European Union Eurostack committee,"

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@monsieuricon couldn't there be any help/funding from "The Linux Foundation"? πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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@monsieuricon
Hi! I might be able to help with this.
We can almost certainly put together a server with 70TB of disk space, and give you a place to host it. Just one question, what is a *lot* of bandwidth in this regard?
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@mori It fluctuates wildly, but according to pretty graphs, we send about 1TB per hour, or ~2.5 Gbps sustained.
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@purpleidea @luis_in_brief I can turn it around and ask why are Fedora, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Oracle and other commercially backed distros still dependent on a network of public mirrors like it's still 1998?
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@monsieuricon Let me talk it over with my compatriot here, but there’s a good chance we can do this for you. We have 31gbps of (mixed) transit at our primary DC (Midwest USA).

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@mori that would be lovely, thanks! Even if we just have an option to use it as a failover in case of trouble (like today).
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