www.squeaksource.com down ?

Daniel Salama dsalama at user.net
Wed Apr 13 13:35:40 UTC 2005


Agree 100%. As I mentioned in the past, I have some resources available 
(server, storage, and bandwidth) that I'd be willing to "donate" if 
needed.

- Daniel

On Apr 13, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Cees de Groot wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:57:43 -0400, Colin Putney <cputney at wiresong.ca> 
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, it would be nice to do something better.
>
> Try the 'Tric P2P' repository. No need for manual mirroring and stuff 
> ;P
>
> In all seriousness: SqueakSource is an extremely important resource, 
> but right now too unreliable for regular use - if the proxy isn't 
> down, then the server itself is overloaded or otherwise unavailable.
>
> Personally, I'd like SqueakSource to be reliable and scalable enough 
> so that people won't even think again of creating 'private' MC 
> repositories for their projects (at the moment, I develop using a 
> private MC repo and only publish to SqueakSource when I have time, 
> think of it, have something interesting to share - that's when all 
> three are true, not when just one is true, so hardly ever).
>
> This probably means that SqueakSource - at least the MC part - needs 
> to be replicatable. Something with my P2P code does mostly 
> automagically. The end result could be that www.squeaksource.com 
> points to a list of A records, each with a SqueakSource instance. DNS 
> round-robin will take care of load balancing, the P2P networking code 
> beneath each SqueakSource instance would make sure that what you 
> upload in anyone instance would be shortly available somewhere else.
>
> Could that be a workable setup?




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