The department of computer science at ANU is looking at networking costs. One big cost is the network traffic charges for samba.anu.edu.au. Currently it is costing about $1000 per month in international traffic charges (at 20c/meg). Note that we only pay for incoming data. To try and reduce the cost we are going to need to put in a mirror of the Samba web pages and ftp site in the US. I'm looking for a volunteer site. The site will need to: - cope with about 3 GB/day of outgoing traffic - cope with about 300 MB/day of incoming traffic (mostly TCP acks) - be on a good, reliable link - have plenty of disk space (need about 1.5GB to start with) - be able to give me an account with ssh access so I can setup mirroring (using rsync) and manage the mirror - be willing to host the mirror long term - be able to run the apache web server Please note that this would be a large commitment of resources, so don't volunteer your site unless you have the authority to do so. If you are interested then send me an email! Cheers, Andrew -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Andrew Tridgell Dept. of Computer Science email: tridge@samba.anu.edu.au Australian National University Phone: +61 2 6254 8209 Fax: +61 2 6249 0010 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=