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Mirror.ac.uk To Close

Posted by timothy on from the line-up-alternatives dept.

bmsleight writes "The UK Mirror Service sadly announces that Lancaster University and the University of Kent have lost the Joint Information Systems Committee contract to jointly provide mirroring services. The mirror service is to shut down from 1st August. This could effect many, many GNU projects mirrored using this service, even before August."

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  1. Maybe not true? by samjam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I understood one reason for the mirror was than JANET (Joint Academic NETwork) were being billed per byte for UK-bound transatlantic traffic.

    But reading the article (shock - its a small article) it seems like what was turned down was an enhanced mirror, personalisable, RSS based, etc.

    They still enterain hopes of running the mirror service "perhaps on a smaller scale".

    Sam

    --
    blog.sam.liddicott.com
  2. Actually, this is very sad. by deggy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I use the UK mirror service alot, even since university and now five years on.

    It's a great, underused and under reported service. Download times on most UK backbones are blazingly fast but these days, with seemingly so much bandwidth around, noone seems to want to worry about using mirrors. I just got the complete gnome 2.6 source at 50kb/s, better that the 11kb/s my DSL link managed from the main site.

    I for one will be sad to see it go.