Re: test event calendar please

> > i think cutting out the mirror selection dropdown (and just providing > > a more prominent link to the mirrors page) would make sense, too. > > right now that dropdown adds 5k of extra weight on every page that i > > suspect rarely gets used. > > I suspect that it does get used due to the amount of hits that my php.net > mirror gets. I think that people tend to use the "main" mirror more because > of the fact the manual notes are there? I think Jim meant that the actual drop-down is rarely used to switch between mirrors. Once you find your closest mirror, you tend to stick to it ... unless it's busted, in which case you go to www.php.net :) - Colin Speaking of stuff that would be Neat (tm), how about: - statistics on each mirror that are collected and analyzed centrally, so we can see which mirrors are getting what traffic - some kind of automatic ping, or a proper SNMP script, to see which mirrors are up, etc.