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Amazon Route 53 has a feature called Latency Based Routing, which you can use to distribute traffic to your own mirrors. With AWS, Rackspace and other similar c

Amazon Route 53 has a feature called Latency Based Routing, which you can use to distribute traffic to your own mirrors. With AWS, Rackspace and other similar cheap hosting, I see no reason for a SourceForge. By the way, SourceForge, Freecode (aka Freshmeat) and Slashdot were all acquired by Dice.com in September 2012.

chrismorgan 13y ago
The GIMP uses an awful lot of bandwidth monthly, well into the terabytes monthly, I believe. PortableApps.com is another project and one which I know much more about due to my involvement; it goes through over 50TB per month and with something like S3 that is already well over $5,000 per month at a minimum. No reason for SourceForge?
- tedunangst 13y ago
  What are people downloading? At 20MB per download, that's more than 2.5 million downloads per month.
  - keithpeter 13y ago
    You beat me to the mental arithmetic there. I wonder what % of downloads are testing development releases and what % are downloading a stable version? I use GIMP on a linux laptop of course so it is the version in the Debian Stable repository (2.8.2 on Wheezy).
- Eiwatah4 13y ago
  $ 5000 seems way too much. 50 TB of traffic would cost something like $ 200 (if all downloads were from the US or Europe) to $ 450 (if all of were from South America) according to this page: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/?navclick=true#pricing https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/?navclick=true#pricing That's still a lot of money, of course.
  - josephlord 13y ago
    Can you recheck your maths? It is $0.08/GB (to Internet in the US 10-50TB volume price) not $0.0008/GB 1000 GB == 1TB $0.08 * 50 * 1000 = $4,000 Or have I missed something?
    - michaelt 13y ago
      According to [1] there were 1,425,722 downloads of gimp-2.8.6-setup.exe from SourceForge last month. According to [2] that file is 90.1 megabytes So that one file used 122.5 TB of bandwidth in that month. Assume for the purposes of argument this is 100% from the US and follows the cloudfront pricing outlined at [3], and per-request costs are trivial. (10 terabytes) * (0.120 US$ per gigabyte) + (40 terabytes) * (0.080 US$ per gigabyte) + ((122.5-50) terabytes) * (0.060 US$ per gigabyte) in US$ = 8960 US$ [4] So, for that single file, about US$ 9000 a month. It gets more expensive if people download from other countries, and 22% of downloads were for different files not included in the download count for the most popular file, which I used above. It would be trivial to top $12,000 a month in cloudfront fees. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/GIMP%202.8.6/gimp-2.8.6-setup.exe/stats/timeline?dates=2013-10-01+to+2013-11-09 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20... [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/GIMP%202.8.6/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20... [3] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing [4] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(10+terabytes)+*+(0.120+US%24+per+gigabyte)+%2B+(40+terabytes)+*+(0.080+US%24+per+gigabyte)+%2B+((122.5-50)+terabytes)+*+(0.060+US%24+per+gigabyte)+in+US%24 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(10+terabytes)+*+(0.120+US...
- olau 13y ago
  With hetzner.de, you get 20 TB/per month included with a dedicated server and then 2 EUR/TB after that http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40 http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40 So not free, but not as expensive as S3 and friends.

chrismorgan 13y ago

The GIMP uses an awful lot of bandwidth monthly, well into the terabytes monthly, I believe. PortableApps.com is another project and one which I know much more about due to my involvement; it goes through over 50TB per month and with something like S3 that is already well over $5,000 per month at a minimum. No reason for SourceForge?

tedunangst 13y ago
What are people downloading? At 20MB per download, that's more than 2.5 million downloads per month.
- keithpeter 13y ago
  You beat me to the mental arithmetic there. I wonder what % of downloads are testing development releases and what % are downloading a stable version? I use GIMP on a linux laptop of course so it is the version in the Debian Stable repository (2.8.2 on Wheezy).
Eiwatah4 13y ago
$ 5000 seems way too much. 50 TB of traffic would cost something like $ 200 (if all downloads were from the US or Europe) to $ 450 (if all of were from South America) according to this page: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/?navclick=true#pricing https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/?navclick=true#pricing That's still a lot of money, of course.
- josephlord 13y ago
  Can you recheck your maths? It is $0.08/GB (to Internet in the US 10-50TB volume price) not $0.0008/GB 1000 GB == 1TB $0.08 * 50 * 1000 = $4,000 Or have I missed something?
  - michaelt 13y ago
    According to [1] there were 1,425,722 downloads of gimp-2.8.6-setup.exe from SourceForge last month. According to [2] that file is 90.1 megabytes So that one file used 122.5 TB of bandwidth in that month. Assume for the purposes of argument this is 100% from the US and follows the cloudfront pricing outlined at [3], and per-request costs are trivial. (10 terabytes) * (0.120 US$ per gigabyte) + (40 terabytes) * (0.080 US$ per gigabyte) + ((122.5-50) terabytes) * (0.060 US$ per gigabyte) in US$ = 8960 US$ [4] So, for that single file, about US$ 9000 a month. It gets more expensive if people download from other countries, and 22% of downloads were for different files not included in the download count for the most popular file, which I used above. It would be trivial to top $12,000 a month in cloudfront fees. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/GIMP%202.8.6/gimp-2.8.6-setup.exe/stats/timeline?dates=2013-10-01+to+2013-11-09 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20... [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/GIMP%202.8.6/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20... [3] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing [4] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(10+terabytes)+*+(0.120+US%24+per+gigabyte)+%2B+(40+terabytes)+*+(0.080+US%24+per+gigabyte)+%2B+((122.5-50)+terabytes)+*+(0.060+US%24+per+gigabyte)+in+US%24 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(10+terabytes)+*+(0.120+US...
olau 13y ago
With hetzner.de, you get 20 TB/per month included with a dedicated server and then 2 EUR/TB after that http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40 http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40 So not free, but not as expensive as S3 and friends.