[Haskell-cafe] nun.haskell.org http services down?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 5 May 2010, Roel van Dijk wrote:

> I think it would be nice in general to be able to mirror at least
> hackage.haskell.org. Something like rsync would be close to ideal for
> this purpose.
>
> Reasons I would like to mirror hackage:
> 1 - Provide alternative when the main hackage is down
> 2 - Access to the sources of all uploaded packages for analysis purposes

It would be also interesting to have alternative upload servers. That's 
certainly more complicated, but I know that the AmiNet manages this 
problem, e.g.:
   http://de.aminet.net/
  The secondary upload servers queue the uploads and forward it to the main 
server, when it is available.