[Fedora-infrastructure-list] mirrors cgi and load

[Mike McGrath]

On 10/20/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> So, In a bit of a concern I was thinking about the response time from
> the mirror cgi and also other load concerns. I was wondering if we had
> considered making mirrors.fedoraproject.org a round robin or
> load-balanced location between the duke site its on now and another
> site, possibly at PHX. The sqlite db of the data after a check should be
> small enough to quickly rsync between the two sites and this would help
> with load on the main fedoraproject.org system I would think.
>
> What do y'all think about implementing something like that in the next
> few days before FC6 final?
>
> It feels like it is just:
>  1. dns entry addition
>  2. vhost addition on one of the phx boxes
>  3. an rsync+ssh key at the end of the checker cron job
>
>
> -sv
>

This was on our list of things TODO but never quite made it.  It
should be pretty trivial to set up and would be useful not just for
balancing load but for availability as well.  I'll just have to add
some log aggregation to my script.

             -Mike