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Looking for a few good mirrors
We’ve had so many thousands of downloads of Plex in the last couple months that the cost of hosting via Amazon’s otherwise excellent S3 service is starting to really add up. Cayce has been kind enough to support us with the S3 hosting since the beginning, and we really appreciate it, but we’d like to move to a more affordable, and more geographically distributed solution. We’d like to know if there are people out there with a fast network connection and bandwidth to spare who would be willing to help us out in hosting Plex.
In order to make this easy, we’ve written a few scripts that monitor mirrors, and round-robin between “active” mirrors when providing download links to the Sparkle update checker. So if you have fiber to the curb, but you can only provide us with bandwidth on the weekends, that’s still valuable. Even so, we’re looking to start with a good handful of fast always-on servers.
Other features we’ll likely add are country correlation to provide the closest server, and transfer speed monitoring. Our goal: To get Plex to you, via auto-update, wherever you are, as fast as we possibly can.
So if you can spare us some bandwidth, please us know by dropping us a line at mirrors at plexapp dot com. Please let us know how much bandwidth you would be able to allocate to Plex downloads.
Many thanks!
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I can offer a unlimited bandwidth mirror server in China.
Hi Elan,
thanks for your work on Plex. I would be proud to do my part in helping the Plex project. I have a 4MBit uplink with a 24/7 server running Linux. As longs as my commercial projects are getting enough bandwidth your’re wellcome.
Albert
I have some space (~400MB) left with my ISP (XS4ALL). These servers are in the Netherlands.
Go to MacUpdate.com, here:
http://www.macupdate.com/submission/prodinfo.php
They will host your file for free since you are producing freeware: “If your file is freeware, there is no obligation for uploading to MacUpdate’s servers.”
No strings attached, totally FREE as in BEER. What are you waiting for?!?
Why not simply use Bittorrent? Use a popular tracker like TPB or maybe one of the lesser known but more “respectable” ones and the issue of bandwidth should pretty much go away. With something this popular getting it seeded shoudl be no problem…
I have around 10 GB of space and 200 GB of bandwidth available every month. I can definitely help you guys mirror your files. Please do let me know how I can help.
Thanks
Vivek
Hello,
Why not host the project on SourceForge, since it’s GPL ?
Hi Elan,
I have a server in France – 100Mbit connection – for Plex I could spare a few dozens GB a day. Please let me know if you need my help.
Regards,
Christian
I can help with unlimited bandwidth on a 100/15mbps (down/up) line in Sweden (Bredbandsbolaget a.k.a BBB).
Why don’t you upload it to rapidshare.com? it’s free! or if you want, you can create an account then get the credit for the downloads… if you don’t want the hassle, I gladly do it for you…
Thanks to everyone for their generous offers to help with hosting!
The reason why we don’t go with Bittorrent/rapidshare is because the auto-updater we’re using (Sparkle) doesn’t support those methods.
Maybe you could try http://coralcdn.org/ though iirc they may have put a 50MB limit per file cached into place, but ‘geographically distributed’ = CDN, really.
Perhaps split updates into smaller chunks and then cat them together once they’re all received?
Or as others said torrent…
Hey guys… I just put up http://ams.tonytee.nl/plex 100Mbit wide 200G/m cap
keep up the good work…
Tony
I’ve got a dedicated server in the datacenter where I work with a full 100mbit (unmetered) connection (Quad core, 4GB RAM, 200GB of disk space)
I really love your project and I’d love to help out with a mirror.
Shoot me an email if you are interested.
Hi Elan,
I contacted the given address – Isaac already answered -, I can offer some (70 MB + 500 MB) monthly bandwidth.
Keep up the good work!
i was actually thinking about offering this when i noticed the last release, but saw it was on amazon so thought it was taken care of.
i have a 10mbit i currently sit the torrent on consistently, doing my bit..
just out of curiosity, what is HTTP bandwidth currently sitting at for 7/7.1?
Also, if this were to go forward, anyone know of a script that could monitor that download link and provide details on how many downloads etc?
JC
i also can offer you 200gb of bandwidth monthly. hosted in germany.
just drop me a msg!
cheers
flow
Why not use Google Code or Sourceforge both have CDN:s.
I have 500GB Storage and 1TB Bandwith.
I would be more than happy to mirror Plex.
Just program in some BT support :=) That’s the future…
they can’t use Google Code or SourceForge because Plex is not completely GPL (parts are closed source).
Add a little field in the sparkle update window which could hold a jpg, and I would be glad to talk to my company. I do not think they will be against this if our company name and logo could be shown to the downloader.
I have a mobile me account. 200gb of data transfer a month. Not much, would only support 2000 DLs a month. not sure if that would support sparkle though
I have 200gb of bandwidth a month on servers in the Netherlands.
Oops, of course, I meant 70 GB + 500 GB
I don’t have anything, but I’d just like to urge everyone to use BitTorrent as a way of alleviating the hit on their servers. Also, seeding is cool!
I vote for Bittorrent as well. Yes, I know Sparkle does not support it, but maybe it should!
If anyone wants to add Bittorrent support to Sparkle, that would be an awesome project
I can offer 10GB of space and 1,500GB of monthly bandwidth.
Just shot you an e-mail
I have a kick ass 100MBit pipe I can put plex on, geographically the servers are located in Sweden, so send me a email and maybe we can come up with something.
And by the way, tanks for a great application!
Are you still looking for mirrors, my bandwidth is just growing and growing, so I can spare about 2TB a month if you need it
Thanks to everyone who replied! At this point we’re all mirrored out, and we’ll be posting shortly to thank all the generous people who donated bandwidth to Plex.
I can offer a unlimited bandwidth mirror server in Switzerland, 100Mb/100Mb