[IMC-Video] video.indymedia.org - a warning: beware of complex systems!

[mark burdett]

Hi, i would pledge some bandwidth.  1 mbps or more depending 
on what pricing I can work out.  if we could get enough 
people to pledge bandwidth then squid mirrors could be a 
good solution (as long as the squid mirrors have enough 
diskspace to actually mirror a fair portion of the site).

--mark

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:02:00 +0100, ng wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > Sasha Costanza-Chock wrote:
> >> OK thanks for stimulating this conversation to move forward. It would be
> >> great if we could build on the push from TJ to get the current version
> >> of video.indy back up and running ASAP!
> > 
> > I'm totally with you here. What is required to get the current
> > video.indy back up? I think its storage and hosting. I think that a 500
> > gig dreamhost acct would do.
> > 
> > But we need to hear back from Occam, the only video.indy developer, to
> > answer that question.
> > 
> > In the meantime, I'll try to get the plumi test site up in the next few
> > days, since I have some time off from school.
> 
> 
> video.indy is currently hosted on bolobolo which has enough power and
> diskspace. the problem is bandwitdh. therefor downloads are disabled.
> currently for the whole bolobolo there is 1mbit reserved which isn't
> (yet) really used, as there isn't much to download. however if downloads
> would get enabled it would rise very quickly.
> 
> This fact is also stated on the site.
> 
> video.indy had the luck that was hosted on ahimsa which had a 100mbit
> line. and according to occam (irc log) the bandwith usage was about 1TB,
> which is around 7Mbit/s (just hand multiply with pi, correct me if i'm
> completly wrong)
> 
> So the question with all that getting video.indy back online (with the
> old or a new cms) is mainly the question who can offer around 10Mbit/s a
> Month 95 per centile unlimited to download the videos. And this will
> even increase if there is a better CMS which might offer IndyTube like
> videos or so.
> 
> For sure this bandwitdh could also be organised on bolobolo, however
> then the people hosting bolobolo need certainly some money to pay the
> additional bandwidth. And they are certainly willing to organise this.
> But what lacks is a fix and ensured money incom to get the bandwidth payed.
> 
> However as many people are proposing static content. The site could
> easily still be hosted on bolobolo (or even several servers) and the
> videos could be hosted on a special server with a good connectivity.
> 
> So imho the main focus should be to organise a place with good
> connectivity. Diskspace and power is cheap, bandwitdh not always
> (depending on your position).
> 
> Would be nice if anybody could that sort out, so video.indy can get back
> up online. thanks!
> 
> greets ng
> 



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