Re: moving octave.org domain from Wisconsin servers

[Thomas Weber]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:53:16PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 20-Dec-2008, Kristjan Onu wrote:
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> | John W. Eaton wrote:
> | > I have a hosting service that can do everything except anonymous ftp...
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> | At the risk of going off-topic, using a virtual private server (VPS)
> | provider rather than a hosting service should allow anonymous FTP. In
> | terms of cost, some VPS providers may be comparable to hosting services
> | (e.g. prgmr.com and rapidxen.net.)
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> My hosting provider can actually do anonymous ftp for an additional
> charge, but I don't see the need since we can use ftp.gnu.org and its
> mirrors for that.  Most of the octave.org web pages will still be
> served from gnu.org anyway.  So the primary change is that
> ftp.octave.org will stop working.  So I guess I really want to know
> whether anyone thinks that change will cause trouble. 

People should be pushed to using mirrors, so ftp.octave.org going away
is probably a good thing.

        Thomas