Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Alan's quite right. I am hosting the MinGW RPMs temporarily on my own site (something like 700-800 MBs worth):
But a single OO.o update alone is as large as all of your repo.
But I spend under $30 / month on this server, and there is no noticable load from the 565 people[1] synching their development machines to it.
And there would be a lot more than 565 people updating their old Fedora releases.
The infrastructure requirements for such a project would be several orders of magnitude higher than those for your MinGW repo or my CalcForge repo. There's no way a $30/month server would be able to provide the required bandwidth, maybe not even the required storage (but the bandwidth is proportional to size * download count, both of which are several orders of magnitude higher than for a small repository, so I expect the bandwidth to be the bigger issue, as it multiplies up, whereas the storage space is only dependent on the size of the packages).
Kevin Kofler