[Haskell-cafe] Offer to mirror Hackage

[David Terei]

Oh yes, it's hackage2... not hackage1.

On 19 April 2012 11:50, David Terei <dave.terei at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 April 2012 08:12, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Right now I'm trying to answer a simple question:
>>
>> Would the current Haskell.org / hackage infrastructure benefit from the
>> donation of a dedicated VM with good bandwidth/uptime?
>>
>> Whoever already knows how to do this could configure it.
>>
>> In trying to answer the above question I found this long email thread from
>> 1.5 years ago.  Duncan said the following:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> That's certainly what we've been planning on, that anyone can run a
>>> mirror, no permissions needed. The issue people have raised is what
>>> about having public mirrors that are used automatically or
>>> semi-automatically by clients.
>>
>>
>> Are there any updates to this in the last year?  Is anybody running a
>> mirror?
>
> I am.
>
> http://hackage.scs.stanford.edu/
>
>>
>> The other reason I've been thinking about this is the scoutess project.
>>  More public testing or continuous integration facilities would require more
>> hardware resources.
>
> The computer it's running on has 16 cores and 48GB of ram. I have
> access to a few other computers like this.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>>
>>   -Ryan
>>
>>
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