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Kernel.org Needs Some Help, Perl Foundation Got Some
Dante wrote in to say "I just read this on the Linux Kernel mailing list, it's from Peter Anvin, one of the ftp.kernel.org maintainers...
H. Peter Anvin writes: "The recent troubles we've had at kernel.org pretty much highlight the issues with having an offsite system with no easy physical access. This begs the question if we could establish another primary kernel.org site; this would not only reduce the load on any one site but deal with any one failure in a much more graceful way.
Anyone have any ideas of some organization who would be willing to host a second kernel.org server? Such an organization should expect around 25 Mbit/s sustained traffic, and up to 40-100 Mbit/s peak traffic (this one can be adjusted to fit the available resources.) If so, please contact me."
In related news, mbadolato wrote in to tell us that "there's a press release over at dyndns.org announcing that they've donated $20,000 to the Perl Foundation!
'Thanks primarily to Perl and other Open Source technologies, we are able to provide DNS services to over 180,000 members of the Internet community,' said Tim Wilde, founder and chief executive officer of DynDNS.org. 'This is our way of giving back to some of the people whose tireless devotion to writing quality software has enabled us to provide our services to the Internet community over the past three years.'
The donation page for the Perl Foundation can be found here
I've pretty much eliminated Ameritech DSL from consideration, but I'm wondering what really is the difference between the other two.
From some things I've read, like the above, but other things as well, I'm leaning toward Earthlink, but I am concerned about TW pulling tricks down the line to screw over those who haven't selected their service similar to what the phone companies did to people who chose third-party DSL providers.
Anybody got any suggestions or ideas?
I've started a Journal entry to capture any ideas anybody has. Thanks.