[13:50] <Guest6696> Hey guys, I want to set up an Ubuntu mirror and was wondering what the recommended specifications would be for the server, apart from the storage and bandwidth requirements mentioned in the wiki
[14:15] <Berge> Guest6696: Depends on expected use, of course
[14:15] <Berge> But generally, serving static content over HTTP is something modern computers are very good at
[14:16] <Berge> It's easy to saturate 10Gbit/s links with a single core.
[14:34] <Guest6696> Berge I plan to make it a public mirror and also mirror a couple of other distributions if I am able to. Assuming that I have to buy all the hardware from scratch, you say something like an Epyc 7313(p) will be overkill?
[14:35] <Berge> Guest6696: Very, very much so
[14:35] <Berge> What sort of bandwidth are you looking at?
[14:36] <Berge> I wouldn't be surprised if you could do 10Gbit/s of static HTTP serving on a Raspberry Pi these days.
[14:37] <Berge> Changes a bit if you want to do TLS, but not too much, since all relevant CPUs will have AES-NI support
[14:37] <maswan> You'd need better pcie nic for the pi
[14:37] <Berge> It's got USB3, doesn't it?
[14:37] <maswan> exactly
[14:38] <Berge> I can never remember USB3 speeds, but maybe you'll need 3.1
[15:00] <Guest6696> Berge currently have 1Gbps, trying for 10Gbps
[15:01] <Guest6696> ok, so ig I am better off with cheaper or older components. Ig not much of ram would also be required then?
[15:01] <Berge> Guest6696: IO will be much more important than CPU
[15:02] <Guest6696> Oh okay. Currently looking at getting 3-4 ironwolfs and setting up a RAID
[15:02] <Berge> Will you be using spinning rust?
[15:02] <Berge> right
[15:03] <Berge> A reasonable RAID5 would do, probably
[15:03] <Berge> But beware of premature optimization here
[15:03] <Berge> Very few mirrors actually operate at multi-gigabit
[15:04] <Berge> But the more RAM, the less needs to be read from disk.
[15:04] <Guest6696> Oh will look into it. Thanks for the headsup
[15:07] <Guest6696> Also the wiki says I would need ~1.5TB of storage space as of today. How much does this increase YoY?
[16:30] <Ravage> Guest6696: my current folder is about 1.6T. so i would maybe go with 2TB for Ubuntu 
[16:30] <Ravage> debian is 1.7 atm as a reference
[16:31] <Ravage> that does nr include the security repos