Re: Call for help : mirror NetBeans downloads ?

1 word: BitTorrent.

Maybe it doesn't sound very corporate-y but it gets the job done. And
if you go this route maybe I'll finish my auto-update extension that
works via BitTorrent and thus reduces the load on update centers too.

--emi

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Jack Catchpoole
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Currently NetBeans is available for download only from a few servers.  We'd
> like to open this up and distribute NetBeans via a network of mirrors
> worldwide.  This should hopefully mean faster downloads for everyone, as
> well as improved redundancy.
>
> To that end, we're looking for anyone who can contribute disk space and
> bandwidth.  If you own or admin a server on the open internet, and are able
> to host the NetBeans bits for download there, we'd love your help! :-)
> Please get in touch off-list and I can let you know more technical details.
>
> Please feel free to forward this as appropriate.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
> Jack Catchpoole
> NetBeans/Sun Microsystems
> http://www.netbeans.org/
>



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