[tor-bugs] #7004 [Tor Sysadmin Team]: reduce webserver bandwidth utilization

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#7004: reduce webserver bandwidth utilization
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 Reporter:  phobos             |          Owner:     
     Type:  project            |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |      Milestone:     
Component:  Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:     
 Keywords:  SponsorZ           |         Parent:     
   Points:                     |   Actualpoints:     
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 Our webservers collectively average 123.07 mbps of traffic with peaks to
 312.98 mbps on Sunday. During the week, these numbers double sometimes
 triple during new releases. Our free hosting is wearing itself thin in
 some datacenters.

 From a cursory review of apache log files, the bulk of the traffic is from
 /dist package downloads.

 We need to find a way to reduce webserver bandwidth consumption. Getting
 rid of all package-related traffic is the goal.

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