On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 04:59:13PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > Also, 1000 users (conservative estimate) hammering a single server all > > at once just doesn't scale. That requires a ~300Mb/s downlink to a > > single server. Packaging them up as a package allows us to use our > > existing mirror network with a local cache, which means there's no > > central point of failure. > The server could be appropriately mirrored though right? We have a _lot_ of Fedora mirrors run by community volunteers. We'd have to have a lot of infrastructure to come close, and especially for data that's not really changing frequently it seems nicer to leverage that if we can get the other technical issues worked out. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
