Offer to Cookers

[Capt Fiero]

All this rapid share, yadda yadda is really getting old quick. If at least a few ROM Cookers are interested. I'll setup a space on my server to allow uploads that point back to an HTTP download section. You would be responsible for uploading the file, then posting a link here on XDA that would be a direct download link. The uploads would be handled by a passworded FTP account. I have about 400gig of download to spare per month, which should be more than enough for a bunch of Roms. Either reply here or send me a PM and we can talk.

I can also set it up, so that people can go to a root folder and find all the Roms and just pick the ones they want. Heck I can even store older Roms on the server so if someone wants an old one it will be up there.

1st point, there will be no warez posted.
2nd point, you must be a recognized cooker.

Well Cookers, drop a line and let me know.

It would end up being something like this, with each cooker having his own folder.

http://captfiero.com/videos

[veyka]

This has been done, before, twice.

And both times, the file disappeared, or the person did, within 4 days.

[kareeem]

Well, not Jannaa's!!!! I use it aplace4u.biz and it's AMAZING!!

[Capt Fiero]

This has been done, before, twice.

And both times, the file disappeared, or the person did, within 4 days.

The only reason I could see a person leaving is if Microsoft sent a letter saying they did not like people cooking the roms and throwing a hissy fit. I have went ahead and created the folder on my remote server and am uploading stuff right now. I have not made the ftp account for uploading, however I should be able to allow open access to what I have on there in about 2hrs.

[veyka]

The only reason I could see a person leaving is if Microsoft sent a letter saying they did not like people cooking the roms and throwing a hissy fit. I have went ahead and created the folder on my remote server and am uploading stuff right now. I have not made the ftp account for uploading, however I should be able to allow open access to what I have on there in about 2hrs.

I hate rapidshare as much as the next non premium person, so i hope this gets off the ground. people don't even use aspupload, or whatever its called..

[Capt Fiero]

Ok the Basic is up, http://www.captfiero.com/romsYou will have to mouse over the file name if it is too long to show up, and then just look at your tool bar to see the entire name.

If anyone see's a file that should not be there. (copyrighted) Please let me know and I will remove it.

Also if a file is something "YOU" made or prefer me not to have up, let me know and I will remove it.

I will not make the upload address public so if you want files uploaded, you can send me a PM and I will upload it, or if you are an established cooker, I will give you direct upload settings.

[zocster]

I am sure my chef would love this feature, his connection sucks back home though, so if this is genuine I will start mirroring his stuff here too ... I guess the more mirrors the better, I been mirroring to 4shared and mediafire all this time... seems to work well

Just FYI tho, CRCinAU has at least around 100GB of traffic a day (may be he can correct me on this) ...

[veyka]

I am sure my chef would love this feature, his connection sucks back home though, so if this is genuine I will start mirroring his stuff here too ... I guess the more mirrors the better, I been mirroring to 4shared and mediafire all this time... seems to work well

Just FYI tho, CRCinAU has at least around 100GB of traffic a day (may be he can correct me on this) ...

He said something like that somewhere.. If you think, most rom topics get 1k+ hits per day.. and say 100 download.. a 50 meg file, that's 5gig from nowhere..

And when a new rom is out..

[Capt Fiero]

Well I have 1200gig total traffic allowed, I use about 400gig a month for Videos and I want to keep about 400gig aside for spikes. That leaves me about 400gig to play with. I can't mirror the entire PPC world, but the latest roms and a few add ons would be fine.

[CRCinAU]

heh - where abouts is this mirror located?

At the moment, my mirroring system is handling the load quite well - I have a total of 5 mirrors around the globe (1 x EU, 3 x US, 1 x AU) and the amount of traffic is much lower than it was a month ago on the one AU server because of the way things are spread out now.

The mirroring scripts will auto-detect where the user is and send them to the nearest server (or if we don't have a server near you, we randomly pick one to share the load).

You'll notice this is why I don't have direct links to anything anymore - it's all to my download script.

Even DeviceUpdate uses this script to custom-generate it's index based on where you are :)

That being said, as of my typing this, since 28th August, I've served:
Release 12.11 ROMs: 270 @ 40Mb each (10.8Gb)
Release 11.2 ROMs: 38 @ 41Mb each (1.55Gb)
Device Update Sessions: 1,235 (unknown download amount)

That's pretty good for less than 4 days ;)

Some more mirrors would be nice - although mirrors in the US are probably not as helpful as the rest of the world... There's ~1Gb of content to be mirrored and count on ~100Gb per month of traffic in a lazy month.

[galaxys]

FYI: Developers thread options: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=388819

[Capt Fiero]

To my knowledge it is a US based server. I am personally in Canada however it seems that US hosts are far cheaper. I'll send ya a PM with the details.