[tor-bugs] #25575 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: Server space request (175 GB total) for hosting Tor Browser downloads

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#25575: Server space request (175 GB total) for hosting Tor Browser downloads
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     Reporter:  arthuredelstein                      |      Owner:  tpa
         Type:  project                              |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                               |  Milestone:
    Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                               |   Keywords:
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 We would like to offer more Tor Browser locales for download, and we'll
 need more disk space. Currently we serve 16 locales using a total of 41.23
 GB of disk space (with two releases of Tor Browser currently on disk). In
 addition, we currently have an additional 16 further locales for which
 translations are 100% complete.

 A single locale (including alpha and stable, bundles and update (mar)
 files, and all platforms, and two consecutive releases) requires 2.5 GB,
 which means we expect approximately 40 GB additional would be needed to
 host two releases of the remaining Tor Browser versions. That means a
 total of roughly 82 GB.

 However, we might expect to sometimes host as much as many three
 consecutive releases simultaneously, or 123 GB. On top of that, in the
 future, we will be adding mobile support, which increases the estimate to
 ~150 GB.

 In the future, we likely also will want to add more locales. It's
 difficult to know exactly how many this will be, but I would guess it will
 be 5 or less. Therefore I'm inclined to request that we increase the total
 space to 175 GB for now (including the ~42 GB already in use) for this
 year, and re-evaluate 1 year from now. Happy to discuss my calculations
 further as needed.

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