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Record Breaking Month July 2008

The University of Kent Computing Laboratory's UK Mirror Service has had its busiest month yet. Busting it's previous record of 173 tebibytes of outbound traffic, to ship 193 tebibytes -- equivalent to more than forty four thousand DVDs in total, or fifty nine DVDs an hour. This was primarily due to Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSuse releases during the previous month. Usage peaked at about twenty thousand concurrent downloads with a peak data rate of 951 Mbits/s.

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2008/08/03: (pssc)

New Record Month For University of Kent's Mirror Service

The University of Kent Computing Laboratory's UK Mirror Service has had its busiest month yet, racking up over 173 tebibytes of outbound traffic -- equivalent to more than forty four thousand DVDs in total, or fifty nine DVDs an hour. This was primarily due to Fedora and Ubuntu releases during the last month. Usage peaked at about fifteen and a half thousand concurrent downloads with a peak data rate of 949 Mbits/s.

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2008/07/02: (pssc)

October Record Month For UK Mirror Service

The University of Kent Computing Laboratory's UK Mirror Service has had its busiest month yet, racking up over 154 tebibytes of outbound traffic -- equivalent to more than two hundred thousand CDs in total, or five CDs a minute. This was primarily due to openSUSE and Ubuntu releases during the last month. Usage peaked at about seven and a half thousand concurrent downloads with a peak data rate of 935 Mbits/s.

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Heavy usage looks likely to continue, with the release from the Fedora Project causing another surge at the beginning of this month.

2007/11/23: (pssc)

New RSS Feed For Added Mirrors

There is now an RSS feed for new mirrors available from the home page.

2007/11/15: ( pssc)

New Site Launch

Transition to a new site is underway, please report any breakages.

2007/08/10: (pssc)

MySQL Mirror

The MySQL mirror is now a tier 1 mirror.

2007/07/04: (pssc)

Rsync Service Upgraded

The rsync service now includes support for hardlinks.

2007/06/19: (pssc)

University of Kent Supports UK Mirror Service

Despite being more popular than ever the JISC have decided not to fund the UK Mirror Service. However, the University of Kent Computer Science Department continues to support the service.

2007/03/31: (pssc)