[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:     
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Comment(by phobos):

 Options discussed between weasel and phobos:

  1. find a CDN willing to donate services. Risks to this are they may
 block legitimate traffic and they will likely record all details about
 clients (IP, timestamp, files downloaded, etc).
  2. implement magnet/bittorrent files to allow clients to download files
 peer-to-peer. Need to automate this process on package upload.
  3. move www.torproject.org/dist to archive only, leaving webservers to
 serve up web-related content. This breaks our mirror strategy of getting
 tor far and wide. This also just concentrates package downloads onto
 aroides/listera and other archive mirrors.
  4. add current, valid mirrors run by volunteers into the rotation for
 www.torproject.org. Issues here are with lack of ssl (we're not giving out
 current ssl cert), and likely surprise for mirrors when their traffic
 dramatically increases.
  5. build our own CDN. cost, time, resources all are issues here.
  6. setup more webservers around the world to spread out the load.
  7. use apache mod-geoip to better load-balance traffic by locale. This
 doesn't really solve the problem, but may reduce overall load by moving
 network traffic to local servers.

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