[mirror-admin] ISO best practice FTP?

[Brian Long]

On 3/9/11 3:05 PM, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> 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...

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

/Brian/

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