[WBEL-users] Commercial Yum mirror

[Benjamin Smith]

And you may be right. What kind of "value add" would you suggest? 

-Ben 

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 18:06, Mark A. Lewis wrote:
> Well, I think what you will find is that anyone that is willing to pay
> for a service will just rsnync and make their own local mirror. I would
> think that the only ones that may pay for something like this would be
> someone with multiple servers, which even makes it more likely they will
> make their own mirror.
> 
> I think you need to find something "value added" to even have a hope. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:48 PM
> To: whitebox-users at beau.org
> Subject: [WBEL-users] Commercial Yum mirror
> 
> I've been toying with the idea for a while - and would like to guage
> interest in a commercial yum mirror. It's got a free trial setup - if I
> get enough interest, I'll write the "accept money" part and make a go of
> it. If I get to that point, I'll likely support other distros as well. 
> 
> Although I will be charging a little money, I'd like to contribute a
> reasonable amount back to the WB effort, and perhaps to RedHat. 
> 
> http://yumdot.effortlessis.com 
> 
> -Ben
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