Re: Distributing the CPAN

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> wrote:
>> * The need for widespread mirroring is less significant than it was in
>> years past. (Also using git as the inter-mirror transport of source files
>> means there'll be much less traffic between mirrors. Effectively only
>> the diffs between releases.)
>
> Not being a sysadmin, this is my gut feeling.  Relative to hard drive
> prices, CPAN (hell, BackPAN) has shrunk.  I'd imagine the same to be
> the case relative to network capacity.

I keep a year's worth of historical Apache logs for the
cpan.strawberryperl.com redirector, which I would imagine is one of
the more heavily used mirrors.

If anyone wanted access to these logs to get some idea of the how much
network traffic mirrors do, I can make them available.

Adam K