[ILUG] Happy Birthday SourceForge...

[John P . Looney]

 It's a year old, and they sent this on to me today...

----- Forwarded message from noreply at sourceforge.net -----


SourceForge is now a year old, and keeps growing. We're now 
hosting over 12,000 projects and over 90,000 developers. As more and 
more people and projects use the site, things have gotten crowded from 
time to time, especially download speeds.

In order to address these issues, we've tried to overkill the problem 
as best as we could. This means incredible amounts of hardware and 
bandwidth. We secured dozens of fully-loaded VA Linux boxes and have 
moved SourceForge to a co-location facility on the west coast (with a 
100 mbit pipe).

Additionally, we're setting up two additional FTP servers (for a total 
of 3) in three different geographical locations. We are also tripling 
our Sysadmin Staff, growing our support staff and working on projects 
to remove the chron delay and improve the compilefarm.

----- End forwarded message -----

 Wow. About time they got more bandwidth. It's been really slow lately...

Kate

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 When I say 'free', I mean 'free': free from bond, of chain or command: 
to go where you will, even to Mordor, Saruman, if you desire. " 
    -- Gandalf, paraphrasing the choice between Free and Non-free software