[webteam] Re: Setting up a NetBeans mirror in Pakistan

[Shehzaad Nakhoda < >]

Hello Jan,

Thank you for the clarification and for updating the website.

regards
Shehzaad

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:01 AM, jan pirek 
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 wrote:
> Hello Shehzaad,
> first let me apologize for slow response.
>
> We really appreciate your offer to set up mirror for the NetBeans downloads
> in Pakistan.
>
> Currently we do not use mirrors for more then half a year as we switched our
> downloads to very powerful world wide content delivery network called Akami.
> It has thousands of servers all around the globe and serves users from
> nearest one based on they geo location.
>
> Our fault that we have not updated our page about mirrors [1] with the note
> earlier. It's now fixed.
>
> Again many thanks for your offer. Let me know in case of any further
> questions,
> Regards,
> jan
>
> [1] http://netbeans.org/about/os/mirrors.html
>
>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> We would like to set up a NetBeans download mirror in Pakistan to help
>>>> increase access to and usage of NetBeans in the developer community in
>>>> Pakistan. We already have a mirror server at
>>>> http://mirror-cybernet.lums.edu.pk/ for a number of popular open
>>>> source software distributions. This is a collaboration between the
>>>> Lahore University of Management Sciences and Cyber Internet Services,
>>>> a leading ISP in Pakistan.
>>>>
>>>> We see a list of mirrors at http://netbeans.org/about/os/mirrors.html,
>>>> but didn't find any instructions on creating the mirror (e.g. rsync
>>>> server to download from, etc).
>>>>
>>>> We would appreciate any help in getting started.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>> Shehzaad
>>>> LUMS-CyberNet Mirror Team
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> Jan Pirek
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