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October Record Month For UK Mirror Service

The University of Kent Computing Laboratory's UK Mirror Service has had its busiest month yet racking up over 154 Tebibytes (over Two hundred thousand CD's worth or five CD's a minute) of outbound traffic mainly due to openSuse and Ununtu releases during the last month. The service peeked out at about seven and a half thousand concurrent downloads with a peek flow rate of 935 Mbits/s.

Heavy usage look's likely to continue with the release from the Fedora Project causing another surge at the beginning of this month.

2007/11/23: (pssc)

New RSS Feed For Added Mirrors

There is now an RSS feed for new mirrors available from the home page.

2007/11/15: ( pssc)

New Site Launch

Transition to a new site is underway, please report any breakages.

2007/08/10: (pssc)

MySQL Mirror

The MySQL mirror is now a tier 1 mirror.

2007/07/04: (pssc)

Rsync Service Upgraded

The rsync service now includes support for hardlinks.

2007/06/19: (pssc)

University of Kent Supports UK Mirror Service

Despite being more popular than ever the JISC have decided not to fund the UK Mirror Service. However, the University of Kent Computer Science Department continues to support the service.

2007/03/31: (pssc)