On 05/20/2012 01:05 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> Nothing serious on this end fortunately. :-)
> 
> The ISP that services the TDE server cluster had a localized equipment
> failure, but instead of trying to fix the outage they decided to blame the
> customer (me).  This prolonged the outage significantly, even though in
> the end it did turn out to be upstream ISP equipment failure.
> 
> I do apologize for the outage; as you are probably aware the TDE services
> can only utilize a single carrier due to the long-term contractual expense
> of bringing out a redundant service provider to the server location.
> 
> Tim

Have we approached any of the high-bandwidth Universities or OpenSource outfits
to see if they would be willing to provide mirror services?  I see so many
run-of-the-mill projects that have mirror services all over the world. It sure
seems like a favorable project like TDE would be a prime candidate to be
accepted and helped by some of these institutions.

For my learning, if somebody can mirror, would all that would need to be done is
to have some cron job push TDE to the mirror to keep it updated, or is there
more to it than that? I see a mirror as just (storage + band width). For TDE,
that's about 8G in storage. Is that about it?

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.