Pear Mirror
Thanks to Greg’s efforts I’m now hosting a mirror of the PEAR channel. At the moment were only mirroring installer data not the entire website but its a start.
Things are still in the testing phase, but the mirror is usable, just run: pear config-set preferred_mirror us.pear.php.net
Right now we sync the mirrors every 4 hours, so it could be slightly out of date, but not enough to cause problems.
What’s the load of a mirror ?
Wich bandwith is needed to prupose a mirror ?
Joshua Eichorn’s Blog: Pear Mirror…
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[...] Eichorn has posted a quick note about a new addition to the PEAR functionality (with some help from Greg Beaver) – hosting a mirror [...]
A mirror takes about 2gig of storage right now, with that amount increasing over time.
I believe the current pear.php.net uses 300-400 gb of bandwith a month so a mirror is less then that. Currently you have to manually select to use a mirror so unless a lot of people decide to switch to using us.pear.php.net then usage won’t be all that high.
I’ll be posting some usage reports in the next couple weeks/months.
C:\Prg\Net\serveur\wamp\php>pear update-channels
Updating channel “pear.php.net”
Channel “pear.php.net” is up to date
Updating channel “pearified.com”
Channel “pearified.com” is up to date
Updating channel “pecl.php.net”
Channel “pecl.php.net” is up to date
C:\Prg\Net\serveur\wamp\php>pear config-set preferred_mirror de.pear.php.net
config-set (preferred_mirror, de.pear.php.net, user) failed, channel pear.php.net
Moosh I just did a test it worked fine for me. What version of pear are you running i was using 1.5.4