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Re^2: [OT] Providing a Windows ppm repo at minimal cost

by syphilis (Archbishop)
on Nov 24, 2010 at 12:45 UTC ( [id://873429]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: [OT] Providing a Windows ppm repo at minimal cost
in thread [OT] Providing a Windows ppm repo at minimal cost

Have you considered approaching Pair Networks

No ... but not a silly idea.
OTOH, it could be deemed that they are already doing enough for perl.

I did approach my ISP (Optus - who would probably be the second largest Telco in this member of the 3rd World Economy). All they could tell me was:
Optus do not provide any upgrades to the personal web space. If you wa +nt to have a depositary for files, you could register your own domain + and host files on the web space provided. Alternatively, you could l +ook at using free services such as live.com (25Gb), Dropbox (2Gb) and + others
"the web space provided" == 10Mb
Far out !!

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^3: [OT] Providing a Windows ppm repo at minimal cost
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 24, 2010 at 13:20 UTC
    In addition to "the web space provided", don't forget to compare the allowed transfer volume (i.e. what you get without being charged extra). I don't know what volume you'd expect for a ppm repository, but I know from hosting images (jpgs) that as soon as people start to find something useful, this can add up quickly...
      don't forget to compare the allowed transfer volume

      Good point. GreenGeeks advertises a bandwidth of 200,000 Mb per month, which IIUC should equate to ~20000 downloads of the largest of the perl binaries that I provide. (I don't think that the ppm packages that I provide are so popular as to exceed that value... but it'd be nice to be proven wrong about that :-)

      Cheers,
      Rob

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