Re: Audio & Video?

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Well, for the immediate term just someplace I can upload large
>> audio/video files where users can download them.  For example, for the
>> SFPUG talk I just uploaded to the wiki, I have about 100MB of audio.
>
> We chew 100MB+ on the ftp server (multiplied by some large number of
> mirrors) every time we make a new set of source releases; not to mention
> the binaries that soon follow.  100MB isn't "large" by current
> standards.
>
> It's probably fair to discuss what is a reasonable space budget for
> audio/video stuff, and maybe to try to prevent it from being mirrored
> if the sysadmins think that would be a good idea.  But this doesn't
> strike me as being too large for the servers we've got.

could do pub/av section on the ftp server easily enough ... then no one 
site would be "hit" for the bandwidth ...

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