Suggestions for the distributions of the upcoming PHP5.0.0 release

It is quite possible that many people will want to download PHP5 as soon as it is released as FINAL. The amount of computing power and bandwidth needed to serve those people, could prove to be bigger than the power that PHP.net and the mirrors array currently has, especially if the announce and the files are going online on the same time. In the past, I've seen mirrors taking time to synchronize new releases. While the surfer starts a download from www.php.net and is redirected to other mirrors on the download itself, the mirrors might not have the files yet. My 1st suggestion is: First put the files in rsync->phpweb, and wait 24 hours (or at least 12...) for all the mirrors to update. Only then, put an announce on the main page. This has two benefits: A) When the release is indeed advertised, all the mirrors has it, less people will be enforced to use the main site B) Some eager-to-have-the-newest people will note the new files before the release, and will download before the release, thus spreading the load on the release itself (while writing these lines, I notice that apache's apache-dist rsync module already has 2.0.50, but it's not on the main site yet, just like I suggest) My 2nd suggestion is: Put torrent trackers on PHP.net, and spread the packages via the BitTorrent protocol. Since those file will have a really high demand, people will get really good speeds on BitTorrent. This could also help lowering the bandwidth resources everyone are going to have upon release. Thanks for listening, Shimi