Re^2: [OT] Providing a Windows ppm repo at minimal cost

Have you considered approaching Pair Networks

No ... but not a silly idea.
OTOH, it could be deemed that they are already doing enough for perl.

I did approach my ISP (Optus - who would probably be the second largest Telco in this member of the 3rd World Economy). All they could tell me was:

Optus do not provide any upgrades to the personal web space. If you wa
+nt to have a depositary for files, you could register your own domain
+ and host files on the web space provided. Alternatively, you could l
+ook at using free services such as live.com (25Gb), Dropbox (2Gb) and
+ others
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"the web space provided" == 10Mb
Far out !!

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^3: [OT] Providing a Windows ppm repo at minimal cost by Anonymous Monk on Nov 24, 2010 at 13:20 UTC
In addition to "the web space provided", don't forget to compare the allowed transfer volume (i.e. what you get without being charged extra). I don't know what volume you'd expect for a ppm repository, but I know from hosting images (jpgs) that as soon as people start to find something useful, this can add up quickly...	[reply]
Re^4: [OT] Providing a Windows ppm repo at minimal cost by syphilis (Archbishop) on Nov 24, 2010 at 13:49 UTC
don't forget to compare the allowed transfer volume Good point. GreenGeeks advertises a bandwidth of 200,000 Mb per month, which IIUC should equate to ~20000 downloads of the largest of the perl binaries that I provide. (I don't think that the ppm packages that I provide are so popular as to exceed that value... but it'd be nice to be proven wrong about that :-) Cheers, Rob	[reply]