Re: CoCo torrent?
Allen Huffman via Coco <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Jun 2026 11:17:42 -0500
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--===============2191715932537232809== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_B02DC542-198D-476C-855F-A575DB6B6B82" --Apple-Mail=_B02DC542-198D-476C-855F-A575DB6B6B82 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Jun 2, 2026, at 11:13=E2=80=AFAM, RETRO Innovations via Coco = <[email protected]> wrote: >=20 > Setting up the server is easy (Forgejo =E2=80=93 Beyond coding. We = forge. <https://forgejo.org/>, for example) but we should first get a = list of the sites we want to do this with, and see how the maintainers = feel about it. For example: >=20 > If a site maintainer does NOT want their site mirrored, how do we = respond? > If they do, it would be best if they push their changes into the repo = directly, as an admin, and then their site just pulls from the repo like = everything else. > Or, maybe they want to host their repo, for control reasons, and we = can all point to it. One concern I have is when someone grabs =E2=80=9Ceverything=E2=80=9D = from the coco archive. That=E2=80=99s huge drain on that server=E2=80=99s= bandwidth. I=E2=80=99ve been posting websites since the late 90s, so = I=E2=80=99ve never had any concerns about bandwidth because I=E2=80=99ve = always had a ton of it for all the sites I hosted=E2=80=A6 But if it is not an =E2=80=9Cunlimited=E2=80=9D bandwidth account, = moving to a torrent would spread out the downloads. That was my original = idea =E2=80=94 how to mirror without having a bunch of people hit the = site. If we did go the way of sync, that means if 100 of us wanted =E2=80=9Call = the files=E2=80=9D that is 100 downloads of everything from that server. = Foreign bots took my site down (Cloudflare is now there) which made me = aware of this issue for the first time. =E2=80=94 A --Apple-Mail=_B02DC542-198D-476C-855F-A575DB6B6B82 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <html aria-label=3D"message body"><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" = content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"></head><body = style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div>On = Jun 2, 2026, at 11:13=E2=80=AFAM, RETRO Innovations via Coco = <[email protected]> wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset=3D"UTF-8"><p = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: = 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; = letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; = text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">Setting = up the server is easy (<a href=3D"https://forgejo.org/">Forgejo =E2=80=93 = Beyond coding. We forge.</a>, for example) but we should first get a = list of the sites we want to do this with, and see how the maintainers = feel about it. For example:</p><ul style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, = 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; = orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; = text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><li>If a = site maintainer does NOT want their site mirrored, how do we = respond?</li><li>If they do, it would be best if they push their changes = into the repo directly, as an admin, and then their site just pulls from = the repo like everything else.</li><li>Or, maybe they want to host their = repo, for control reasons, and we can all point to = it.</li></ul></div></blockquote></div>One concern I have is when someone = grabs =E2=80=9Ceverything=E2=80=9D from the coco archive. That=E2=80=99s = huge drain on that server=E2=80=99s bandwidth. I=E2=80=99ve been = posting websites since the late 90s, so I=E2=80=99ve never had any = concerns about bandwidth because I=E2=80=99ve always had a ton of it for = all the sites I hosted=E2=80=A6<div><br></div><div>But if it is not an = =E2=80=9Cunlimited=E2=80=9D bandwidth account, moving to a torrent would = spread out the downloads. That was my original idea =E2=80=94 how to = mirror without having a bunch of people hit the = site.</div><div><br></div><div>If we did go the way of sync, that means = if 100 of us wanted =E2=80=9Call the files=E2=80=9D that is 100 = downloads of everything from that server. Foreign bots took my site down = (Cloudflare is now there) which made me aware of this issue for the = first time.</div><div><br></div><div><span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" = style=3D"white-space:pre"> </span>=E2=80=94 = A</div><div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_B02DC542-198D-476C-855F-A575DB6B6B82-- --===============2191715932537232809== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline -- Coco mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.adelphi.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coco --===============2191715932537232809==--