[Scummvm-devel] More demos on demos.php & Wiki ?

Marcus Comstedt marcus at mc.pp.se
Mon Feb 12 23:23:23 CET 2007


Max Horn <max at quendi.de> writes:

> It would totally make sense, at least for those demos for which there  
> is no other "natural" repository (like the HE demos hosted by HE).  
> The problem is, how to get such a location. Unless we can convince  
> SF.net to make an exception for us (which I rather doubt, and I even  
> understand the rationale behind it, so I won't even complain), we  
> probably would have to pay for it...
>
> But collecting all those demos on a central server might generate a  
> *huge* load of traffic. Thinking in the range of dozens or hundreds  
> of gigabyte / month. Part of the problem is that we don't quite know  
> how much exactly, which makes it a bit difficult to plan this...

I can probably host them at Lysator Academic Computer Society.
It has a government funded internet connection which is very
good indeed.  A couple of gigabytes a day should be no problem.


  // Marcus






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