Re: Website

["Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Wickberg wrote:

> A few more suggestions:
>
> * Move the bittorrent link up to the top, giving it more attention.
>
> * Leave ftp.dragonflybsd.org off of the mirror list initially... if 
> slashdot does a front page post, your connection will be busy enough 
> handling page views, having people trying to download off of you won't 
> help. (Let the mirrors take the downloading stress, instead of your 
> T1. Even if your mirror is listed at the end, the typical ./'er will 
> decide to get it from the 'official' source, instead of the mirror 
> links.)
>
> * post the md5 somewhere (this would have been nice for the mirrors 
> last night too ;)
>
> -- Tim Wickberg
>    me@xxxxxxxxxxx
I've a list of the MD5s of all ISOs in my repository at 
dragonfly.The-BOFH.org.

We do definitely need to think about how to handle and organize mirrors 
-- it was virtually impossible to download the 1.0REL from Matt's server 
last night, and I know that with all 15 mirrors we have, that I still 
should have gotten more than 4KB/s. :P No matter, we've got it now and 
we're -RELEASE!

Time to party, gentlemen.

--Devon