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Advanced Open Source Project Hosting?

Posted by Cliff on from the when-you-outgrow-the-typical-answers dept.

asn0 asks: "How do large/popular Open Source/Free Software projects manage their needs for hosting, bandwidth and mirrors? What limitations are there to the size/popularity of projects a site like SourceForge can/will support? Where does a project go for hosting and bandwidth once it out-grows SourceForge, and how hard is it to get hosting, bandwidth and mirrors to support a growing open source project?"

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  1. You don't outgrow SourceForge. by jgardn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You don't outgrow SourceForge. Look at some of the projects hosted there - ViM, Python, several Kernel patches, and much more. Some of the projects there are open-source behemoths, with millions of users.

    SourceForge wants to host the big projects. They want millions of people to view the advertisement banners, and they want to get plugged by the best projects out there. You can imagine what they could do to boost sales if they could say, "You know that ultra-popular huge open source project X? We host it. We can host your software as well."

    And if you are worried about bandwidth -- that's not even a concern. With mirrors being added a couple a year, bandwidth isn't a concern, and it never will be.

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