Re: Argentina Mirror

Hi Mauro, I have replied previously in reference to these mails. Please reread my reply with this in mind. And please also continue to be in correspondence with mirrors@php.net, since it is a group of people, and not my personal email address. Regards, Gabor Hojtsy Mauro@server.barthazi.hu wrote: > Hello Gabor, Pablo answer this email with the reasons which can't allow > us to be mirrors, so we answer his email with the reasons that show you > that we are good candidates, so i paste the email with the reasons and > the Pablo's email. > > > > > Mauro Ferraro :: G2K Hosting :: escribió: Hello People, > > I can't believe the Pablo Arturi's Answer, to the request that we made. > Sincerely i think that is a joke of Innocent's day. > > In first, your Internet Provider (IPLAN) rent de internet access to > CABASE and G4(PRIMA, TELECOM, IMPSAT, TELEFONICA) . CABASE rents de > internet access to G4. G4 is the only group of ISPs in Argentina that > have enough traffic power to provide Internet Access to other companies > and not other companies to G4, so others ISPs, like IPLAN pay for the > bandwidth. I think that you must consider other Internet Provider for > the servers and not us. It is pain to know that you aren't welcome in > datamarkets nowadays so we can understand your answer. > > The G4 have the most amount of traffic in the country. Also, the actual > PHP Mirrors (Argentina Mirrors) are out of G4 and into IPLAN, so, if > IPLAN fall off, the mirrors FALL OFF (no redundancy). In Datamarkets we > don't have problem with bandwidth because the National traffic it > doesn't matter, and each company decide if shape or not the bandwidth. > However IPLAN must shape the bandwidth because they only rent the > Internet Access with "X" amount of bandwidth. > > IPLAN have 2 connections in 2 ISPs, G4(Only Telefonica) and CABASE, > however Datamarkets(PRIMA) is in the G4. I think that is very funny to > talk of redundancy in this case, so, is obvious that our Network is > redundant, because is the major and more important of the country, and > is linked to the other partner's companies that conform the G4 (Telecom, > ImpSat, Telefonica). > > With respect to the load balancing tecnologies, we don't have problems > to implement a Round Robin with several servers (could be 4 to begin). > It is a pleasure for us to contribute to the PHP community. > > Also, is interesting to mention that in Argentina we have only 2 > companies that provide telephone lines, and that companies are in G4 > (Telecom and Telefonica). Therefore, all ADSL and most broadbands > connections in the country are in G4. That, talk about magnitude of > users that receive a best performance of Download from servers in G4 > than servers in CABASE. > > And last, we have an IP Pool (Class C) granted for LACNIC and we have an > agreement with DataMarkets(PRIMA) too, that allow us to be connected > directly to the CORE of Backbone in Argentina. > > Well we hope that you can consider our detailed explanation and thank > you very much for the attention. > > Ps: we hope an evaluation of PHP representative with an objective answer > please. > > Best Regards > > Mauro Ferraro > Departamento Ventas > Grupo 2K Networks > Grupo 2K / G2KHosting > De La Nación 326 L8 , San Nicolás (2900) Buenos Aires, Argentina > Tel: +54-11-4032-1245 > Fax: +54-11-4032-1245 > MSN: mauro@grupo2k.com.ar > E-Mail: mferraro@g2khosting.com > > > > Pablo L. Arturi escribió: > > Well, I felt like I needed to write > > First of all, you have colocation services in datamarkets. This ISP has no > connection to the NAP (Argentinian National Access Point), so you better > consider another ISP which could give you more conectivity. To who may be > interested, today's argentinian internet has divided its connectivity in 2 > main networks, G4 and CABASE (nap). We have a bandwith shaper which allows > users to only download at 512 kbps from the same source, so you won't be > able to do a test in any way about our bandwidth available, never. And in > the other hand, since we have this kinf of control, we can make sure php > mirror availability for most users. Better yet, every ISP should do this > limitations/controls, otherwise while you were testing xmundo you did make > their php mirror downloads unavailable for other users. That's if you really > were able to download at 2 Mbps and if XMundo has only 2 Mbps of available > bandwidth. > > Apart from that, we do have 3 physical connections from 3 different > providers, and 2 physical connections assigned to the php mirror, and both > directions routing (g4 and cabase), you only have one. You can test this at: > http://cabase.comsat.net.ar/ and in case you didn't know > that, try a better > serious ISP. > > test your IP: g2khosting.com [200.32.8.14] > > test our IP: php.bairesweb.com [201.216.206.217] (1) > test our IP: php.bairesweb.com [200.59.45.3] (2) > (round robin dns) > > http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=ar.php.net&type=A > > So now, if you can bit our network infrastructure (which could be difficult > with a datamarkets/prima colocated service), and since we do this mirror > only to help argentinian mirrors get the most fast access to php data (which > I think is the idea), I will be yielding our position in the mirrors php > site. > > And to take advantage of this opportunity, I would like to thanks to the php > comunity for this *big thing* made (php) which let us improve our services > and expand them. > > Apologizes for my poor english and a happy new year for all of you! > > Pablo L. Arturi > parturi@bairesweb.com > gerente de tecnología > > Soporte BairesWeb > soporte@bairesweb.com > > Maipú 464 1º B > 1006 Capital Federal > Buenos Aires, Argentina > > > > > > Please, I Hope that you can read this and reconsider our request. > > Thank you very much for all and happy new year!. > > > > Best Regards > > Mauro Ferraro > Departamento Ventas > Grupo 2K Networks > Grupo 2K / G2KHosting > De La Nación 326 L8 , San Nicolás (2900) Buenos Aires, Argentina > Tel: +54-11-4032-1245 > Fax: +54-11-4032-1245 > MSN: mauro@grupo2k.com.ar > E-Mail: mferraro@g2khosting.com > > > > Gabor Hojtsy escribió: > >>Hi Mauro, >> >>Up to this point we have only seen you and Pablo (the current >>ar.php.net) maintainer arguing on who is the best provider. We have not >>seen independent complaints on the service of the existing mirrors, so >>it does not seem to be justified that a change in mirrors is needed. >> >>Regards, >>Gabor Hojtsy >> >>Mauro@server.barthazi.hu wrote: >> >> >>>Hello People, well, we are sending this email because we are very >>>interesting to be a PHP mirror, i was seeing actually Argentina Mirrors >>>and they very poor in bandwidth, in fact when we test the mirrors the >>>best of them download to 2 Mbps (Xmundo) and the worst download to 512 >>>Kbps (BairesWeb). Actually we have a very well infrastructure of >>>BandWidth of 10 Mbps and we want to be mirror of PHP.net for provide >>>better stuff to Argentina people. >>> >>>I hope you can read and evaluate this message and we wait your answer. >>>Thanks for your atention. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >>