[arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Thu Sep 9 09:11:10 EDT 2010


On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:55:35 +0300, Evangelos Foutras
<foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Fess <killall_humans at lavabit.com> wrote:
>> Page "Local mirros" was removed from wiki by this reason:
>>
>> -----
>> It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth that is required.
>> There is not a good reason to create a local mirror, since one of the alternatives below will likely meet your needs.
>> -----
>>
>> I think it's very useful ability, and why this page was removed... i don't know. It's silly.
>> If anyone else think it must be return - maybe we should do it?
>>
>> P.S.
>>
>> A lot of guys agreed with me this morning, so i think many people want this article back.
>> --
> 
> I agree with the reasoning, I disagree with the content removal. : D

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103987 The original
article was just wrong and causing us problems. Feel free to add an
improved one.

-- 
Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre


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