Hi all,
It occurs to me that opening web page on www.postgresql.org, asking the
user to select the mirror, is rather unprofessional. I am sure this has
been discussed before but I thought I would bring it up again anyway.
So, why not just redirect people to one of the mirrors listed? This could
be done based on IP (yes it is inaccurate but it is close enough and has
the same net effect: pushing people off the main web server) or it could
be done by simply redirecting to a random mirror.
From a quick look, there is nothing of any real size on the site
(excluding developer.postgresql.org, which is not the issue) to warrant
people wanting to access a geographically local server anyway. (Unlike the
case of FTP, for which the list of mirrors is very useful).
Gavin
