| From: | Martin Baute |
| Date: | 3 Aug 2000 at 15:07:54 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Aminet |
Hello g'o'tz
On 03-Aug-00, you wrote:
> Bj�rn Hagstr�m wrote:
>
>> The aminet download interface on the web is as perfect as it gets. It's
>> small, fast, effective and easy to use. Sites like download.com is pure
>> hell to use in comparison to the standard aminet interface.
>
> Forgive them, they have to finance their huge bandwidth requirements
> through advertising - no comparison to a few thousand Amiga users going
> for Aminet mirrors mostly on university servers.
I am not sure about bandwidth, but the space requirements of Aminet
are almost 30GB for a full mirror, according to an interview with Urban
Mueller. They run the main site from ftp.uni-paderborn.de, but they
had to provide their own hard drive... ;-)
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