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Finding Mirrors for the evolt Browser Archive?

Posted by Cliff on from the now-that's-a-lot-of-browsing dept.

MartinB asks: "I help out running evolt.org, and one of the things we provide is a comprehensive browser archive, with over 100 different browsers, some in multiple platforms and versions, going right back to Mosaic 0.4. This is both a piece of web history, and a resource that lets developers test their sites on browsers which vendors don't offer for download any more. We have an expensive problem - the browser archive chews through 140GB of bandwidth a month and growing, even though we've throttled the FTP server and restricted the maxclients. How do we find people who provide mirrors like these and get browsers.evolt.org spread across lots of hosts?" If you would like to mirror this valuable net resource, please volunteer here (or drop a line to the original submitter)

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  1. Get a dedicated at RackShack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    They often have $99/mo specials, and include 400 gigs of bandwidth. That's enough you could have your 140gb covered, AND still sell/use the remaining resources for something else. So, yeah, find someone else(s) that need 260 gigs, and split the cost with them (or bill them higher and cover your costs).

  2. ibiblio? by _vapor · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you considered ibiblio.org? This seems right up their alley. They have a public FTP archive that can handle a lot of traffic, and they mirror Linux distributions, among other things.

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  3. UK Mirror Service by Spanshter · · Score: 2, Informative

    The UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk for the paranoid) provides a lot of useful mirrors, including a nice tucows mirror.

    They will probably mirror something like this.