East Coast Mirror

[Andrew Hankinson, Mr]

Hi all,

I noticed on the mirror page that you are currently looking for a  
North American east coast mirror. Is this still the case? We're  
located in the Music Technology department at McGill University in  
Montreal, and can potentially offer space and bandwidth for a server.

Before committing, I'm wondering if I could get a little more  
information on what would be involved with hosting a mirror, how much  
bandwidth a MB mirror usually eats up, and an idea of how much  
maintenance time is expected. Indeed, any hosting information would be  
useful.

Many thanks!

-Andrew Hankinson

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[Dave Evans-2]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:51:47PM -0400, Andrew Hankinson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I noticed on the mirror page that you are currently looking for a  
> North American east coast mirror. Is this still the case? We're  
> located in the Music Technology department at McGill University in  
> Montreal, and can potentially offer space and bandwidth for a server.
>
> Before committing, I'm wondering if I could get a little more  
> information on what would be involved with hosting a mirror, how much  
> bandwidth a MB mirror usually eats up, and an idea of how much  
> maintenance time is expected. Indeed, any hosting information would be  
> useful.

Thanks for your interest.

I'm not sure I have figures for the bandwidth used by readers.  I'll leave Rob
to answer that one.

I'll provide what information I can, though: the MusicBrainz FTP site
currently occupies just under 10GB.  The vast majority of changes to the data
set are twice-weekly database dumps, currently around 3.3GB per week.
Currently we use rsync to allow our other mirrors to pull data from the master
server.

--
Dave Evans
http://djce.org.uk/
http://djce.org.uk/pgpkey


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[Andrew Hankinson, Mr]

On 4-Oct-09, at 2:39 PM, Dave Evans wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:51:47PM -0400, Andrew Hankinson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I noticed on the mirror page that you are currently looking for a
>> North American east coast mirror. Is this still the case? We're
>> located in the Music Technology department at McGill University in
>> Montreal, and can potentially offer space and bandwidth for a server.
>>
>> Before committing, I'm wondering if I could get a little more
>> information on what would be involved with hosting a mirror, how much
>> bandwidth a MB mirror usually eats up, and an idea of how much
>> maintenance time is expected. Indeed, any hosting information would  
>> be
>> useful.
>
> Thanks for your interest.
>
> I'm not sure I have figures for the bandwidth used by readers.  I'll  
> leave Rob
> to answer that one.
>
> I'll provide what information I can, though: the MusicBrainz FTP site
> currently occupies just under 10GB.  The vast majority of changes to  
> the data
> set are twice-weekly database dumps, currently around 3.3GB per week.
> Currently we use rsync to allow our other mirrors to pull data from  
> the master
> server.

That's certainly workable in our setup. We've currently got an MB  
server up and running, but it's running the latest checkout of  
mb_server, so I understand it's not exactly stable right now.

You can see it here:
http://132.206.14.26/

The database has been loaded, but the search indexing has not been  
done so I don't think you can browse the artists in the front end.

>
> --
> Dave Evans
> http://djce.org.uk/
> http://djce.org.uk/pgpkey
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