Re: Attempting a mirror of Gno from Apple2.org.za

["Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com>]

Well, I'm glad someone is doing this. I had actually started to mirror
the site too, but about an hour into it, the domain suffix suddenly hit
me: .ZA. South Africa, if I'm not mistaken. Bandwidth charges for the
owner. Mass mirroring could actually cost the owner, which is something
I'd rather not do.

Now with that all said, I think multiple mirrors of important sites is
a VERY good idea. Greg is doing a very important service to us Apple
IIers, and I wouldn't want to take anything away from him, but it would
be a shame is something should happen to Greg, or his server, and
suddenly all that priceless stuff is gone forever.

Apple2.org.za is close to the last major Apple II site, so I'm very
relieved that there will be duplicates. I hope making copies of the
copies is a possibility to, down the road.

-Warr



Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Greg Wildman wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 19:59 +0000, Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
> >> If my (ab)use of apple2.org.za is a problem, feel free to let me know or
> >> ban me, I'm downloading the Gno mirror into my own Web server, it'll be a
> >> single hit that allows me to host a mirror myself.  My host is
> >> 141.149.129.16 (static-141-149-129-16.buff.east.verizon.net).  Once I've
> >> pruned off the various index.html pages I'll post the url to my mirror.
> >>
> >> I have wget set to wait a random amount of time, up to 2 minutes, before
> >> hits, to reduce load on the server.
> >
> > No problem, mirror away.
>
> Thanks.  Been leeching for a few hours, got a good bunch of the Trenco
> mirror downloaded.  (Not quite half yet, because of the delay.)  It's
> still coming.  Thank ghed for FILE.LIST xD
> 
> -uso.