It should be no secret that this site and my other co-location needs are hosted at Linode.com, for which I am a happy customer running Gentoo Linux. The reason for this post is that after an announcement today. All I had to do was reboot and then I received a 42% RAM increase. Yay. Thanks Linode, you are exceeding your competition! (Shameless plug for my [referral code][4] ) [4]: http://www.linode.com/?r=b4fa70eb87c890e08baf7b0c7852fb7cecd8963b
Prenote: According to tunnelbroker.net there are only 426 days until IPv4 exhaustion, at the time of this writing. You might have seen me say that the mirror-admin team will support IPv6 rotations “soon” multiple times. It took much discussion, mainly because it is a low priority subject, and thus much time as well. I say it is low priority because on our official IPv6 (rsync.ipv6.gentoo.org) rotation we only see about ~10-15 client syncs per day out of ~23000.
Just a quick note to say that http://sources.gentoo.org/, our web view for source repositories, has moved to a new host a few days ago. Some of you have noted on it being “faster” 😉 This was the goal as it is now on much improved hardware. (Thanks goto our Gentoo Linux sponsors for providing hardware/colocation) The templates for that site are hosted at [gentoo-viewvc-templates.git][2] repo. If you want to make any improvements, I can evaluate.
For some reason, Linode.com (my review) sets up their hosts to use dhcpd to grab the static IPv4 address on boot. This is in contrast to Host Virtual which uses the “Gentoo-way” to set static addresses. Now, there isn’t anything exactly wrong with using dhcpd on hosts with static addresses, actually, it may be simpler (and this is probably why they did it). However, I don’t like it for a few reasons, booting takes longer as it probes for IPs and it uses extra space for dhcpd binary on a low resource host – this includes extra time for updating.
In the past few months, there have been a number of things going on. I want to share those with the readers: New Document: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors-rsync.xml The tools-portage team has made app-portage/mirrorselect use this document to help users select rsync mirrors in a similar fashion as distfile mirrors. Additionally, I have a bug open to include this page in docs and/or the homepage. [http://mirrorstats.gentoo.org][3] – tracks community distfile mirrors for freshness. This page has been around before, but now it supports rsync and IPv6 as well.