it's not elive then!
Yeah...Slight issue: don't have the webhost yet 
but hopefully soon
but there's a ton of features in elive for terminals and tools and automations 
make sure that they don't limit the bandwith usage 
if you want to add it as a mirror of the isos
i did not think about this. Good point
It'd be awesome.
Well the integration with zsh and the powerful vim personalization amkes it quite usable also from cli. If it were integrated with a software management program for cli like dietpi, it'd be my (and not only) go to for servers and clients.
That's what i mean
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OK. So, because I realized just how expensive my canadian vps was going to be ($20CAD/mo for a really bad one!) and found one for $6USD that is in someways better. (OVH)
Which would you prefer @Thanatermesis—a mirror in
- Pacific Asia, Australia, Sydney (SYD)
- Pacific Asia, Singapore, Singapore (SGP)
- Central Europe, Poland, Warsaw (WAW)
(The webhost is giving me an option)
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For a personal / professional server, I strongly suggest you to use digitalocean and if you use the link in the footer of the elive website it will be benefited to you and elive (referal bonus thingy), I have already tried other hostings and this is the only one that makes it worth to the word "reliable" (and, stable, not bottlenecked, etc)
Note: if you plan to use it to mirror elive isos i don't think is a good option, the bandwith is limited (at least in the case of digitalocean, and expensive if you exceed it, in fact)
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OVH (the one i'm using) has unlimited but the plan I have has only 250Mbps internet...would this be OK? (EDIT: I would use DigitalOcean but it got so confusing about the nanodes and all that...basically too much for my small, limited-to-python brain. Plus I DO want to use my webserver to mirror it.)
I'm planning on also having a main website and a self-hosted Gitea server on there too.
But—
you didn't answer my question about the location:
yeah, digitalocean is not an option for that, then (has limited bandwith)
ovh unlimited bandwith but limited to 250 Mbps? mmh sounds correct, but then we have a small problem:
- 250 Mbps should be perfectly fine most of the times, but let's image the scenario where 20 people are downloading at the same time, that would mean 12 Mbps (this happens in the moment of a release announcement)
So... well, the best we can do is to just "try it and see" of course if you already plan to use this server for yourself
Pacific Asia, Australia, Sydney (SYD)
sounds a good option for a better balance and not so big usage
Upgrade
May i help somehow now?
105Mbps is the fastest consumer upload speed reachable probably in my whole country so cannot go faster...
(funny fact: the new internet plan is with the same great company but i save up 15€ per month, i get a free modem that gets upgraded every while and i got the optical fiber installation from the street to the inside of my house for free. Tell me something more awesomely cheap than this. Tho we've been their customers since when my great grandpa bought its first phone so i guess we're also deserving it!)
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If there's not a bandwith limit (overbill) and the computer is all time running without reboots, mirrors are more than welcome! (and needed) 
last review in distrowatch:
Darn darn darn darn darndy darn!!!!!!!!
I seriously wish I had a competent server, but 680kbps upload speed is probably not what you're looking for. 
Wonder what mirror they used.
the problem is that the only 2 mirrors left are in USA (and not the fastest ones), so if they are downloading from europe it can be quite slow, or Asia, etc...
Im thinking to pay for a 5 usd/month extra server only for providing the downloads the option that im looking is 200 Mbps, which is fast for a single download at time, but I wonder if this would suffice... (assuming 5 minutes per download, maybe there's 5 downloads per time in release times...)
Unlimited bandwidth? Also which provider are you looking at?
Check out OVH. haven't tried them out myself but they have unlimited bandwidth and 250mbps (50mbps more than the one youre looking at).
or this Linode plan looks good:
Id be surprised if 2 TB transfer isnt enough, considering we don't get that many downloads per month.
special for storage (isos, repos, and backups): https://oneprovider.com/onecloud/pricing#storage
it is unmetered? so it is a need
OK... I was just looking at the high speeds.
On a high after a new version, I doubt it.
It's high time we seriously start thinking about how we could interest sponsoring by firms running server farms.
I wouldn't mind paying $5 or $10 monthly (i.e I'd prefer paying a yearly sum) for extra bandwidth .... but I doubt that what is needed here, is that cheap. 
But if it is, I'll gladly donate $200 yearly for extra bandwidth.... I can do that i.e it's a reroute of what I paid Wikipedia before what happened to our entry. 
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I think our best option could be to have use universities for that 
I could do a research of the mailing list for ".edu" mails and send them a kind of campaign asking them for mirroring, or maybe we could also do a research of the people mirroring other distros and get their email to include on that mailing request
note: for that, will be needed to setup an rsync server for the isos, and doing so requires at least to get one of these hosting options (because dreamhost doesn't allows that, and the private servers of elive website has only 25gb of disk already used), or to double the HD size of the main elive website server (that would help having more ram too), but im not going to do that if is not really needed, so will be 10/month instead of 5 for these ones
Why unis? I dont see why they would be the ones helping. A lot of them have limited budgets.
Also, soon we will have to clean this thread.
they have good servers with very good unmetered connections, and a good amount of them helps free software too
I'm not sure if You still in need of those, but if You do, i just sent You an email with login details. Have fun 
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