[WBEL-users] Commercial Yum mirror

[Jamey Fletcher]

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-----
> From: whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org
> [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. 

I'm with Mark on this - the only things I can see you could sell as far 
as being a commercial yum mirror is guaranteed bandwidth and uptime. 
And I don't think you'd be able to support that with what you could 
charge - after all, yum has an option to leave the update RPMs in place, 
so you as long as someone can access you, they can then leverage that to 
a site mirror.

Dunno - it sounds good at first glance, but I don't see how to make it 
pay in the long run.