Re: [libreoffice-website] offsite website backup

I am based on the island of malta. I work at a data center here, but i 
dont think i have the space to mirror the dvd's

On 01/08/2011 12:24, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> On 08/01/2011 05:06 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > Hey guys first time posting to this list.
> >
> > I would like to contribute to this part of the community.
> >
> > Here is a bit about myself.
> >
> > I admin 4 linux servers, and am LPIC1 (linux) certified.
> >
> > Is there an offsite server based outside germany or anywhere else in 
> > the world that hosts a backup of the website in case main server 
> > needs to go down for maintenance it falls over to the backup server?
> Where are you located?  Country?  State?
>
> I do not know about LibreOffice/TDF, but once there are DVD projects 
> offering ISOs for downloading it would be nice to have mirrors for 
> these projects outside of Germany.  Not to be down about having the 
> servers in Europe, but I think there need to be mirrors of the site[s] 
> in North America, South America, and every major region of the globe.
>
> Actually every International organization like LibreOffice/TDF needs 
> to be regionally mirrored.  This could indicate that these regions 
> support the organization and its software to the point that they want 
> to make sure their region has access to the main web site even if 
> something happens to main site's service, or something like that.
>
> I once dealt with an internationally sold product company and they had 
> their information mirrored in two location other than their 
> headquarter's facility.  I worked for a time in that main computer 
> center.
There are plenty of mirrors popping up all over the world, but is there 
a mirror for the website though? The website is crucial that it doesnt 
go down, especially if upgrades to the server the site is currently 
hosted on is needed what would the LO/ TDF in general do if the site 
went down?

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