[mirror-admin] ISO best practice FTP?

[Carlos Carvalho]

Brian Long (brilong at cisco.com) wrote on 9 March 2011 14:38:
 >It used to be best practice to use an Apache RewriteRule to redirect all
 >.iso downloads on a Mirror to FTP.  Do people still recommend this or
 >are you allowing Apache to serve up the ISOs directly?

Http is not a good protocol for file downloads, but as the others have
said ftp is worse...

The only reason one might prefer ftp is to simplify QoS: send [large]
downloads via ftp and reserve http for interactive/on-demand pages.
However this is only useful nowadays if your bandwidth is at a
premium, which doesn't seem to be your case.

So, forget ftp. I wish I could get rid of it in our mirror...

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