[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
They already have a choice of mirrors for each user. You are asking me to either put my name on something that isn't mine and does not perform the same or take my name out of it altogether. When load balancing is needed I will load balance to evenly matched and possibly closer locations. I am not going to send someone looking to use a 1 Gbps dedicated server to someone hosting from a shared hosting service that will not perform anywhere near the same for 90% of people.

I support the E4GT first, the E4G and Nexus second and everything else third if you ask me but thats talking free. If there is funding available I don't care what phone we are supporting it is mainly up to the "clients"

Sfhub - Supports the E4GT on XDA and the Optimus S LS670 on another site and is at the moment the heaviest user of both space and bandwidth as well as the first person I offered my spare capacity to. Even without funding I support his work.

QBKing77 - Light user, mostly ACS but XDA of course. Now uses it to upload modems and other small files anything under the size of roms for all phones.

BriefMobile - A potential heavy user in the near future and one who will end up having to ask their own beneficiaries for support. They service leaks to many phones and a couple of carriers. They asked for hotlink protection to protect from other blogs linking the files so there is a minor restriction to where you get the files from but none as to who can.

I work with each person to provide for their needs. Being a dedicated installation I can install and tweak anything they want based on the amount of time I have in a day. The overall server outside of file mirroring is still under development which is why things like custom error pages have waited for more important things.

In artificial tests I can touch most states on a single connection at 50 to 200 Mbps. Test sites in chicago of course when not being slammed show the 1 Gbps capability. It varies by load and location.

Here is a firefox screenshot a user sent me recently, 10 MB/s which is likely a very fast fiber, even cable on a good path to the server:

In theory you can serve about 120 1 MB/s (8Mbps) connections simultaneously. The raid array has no problem delivering most of the time either but if enough files were varied it might choke a little. Thats of course the current single server setup at the moment.

You've caught me a bit unprepared on that first one. I am assuming you mean for supporting the developer/contributor? At the moment we have a good idea of what each person needs since it is only 3 people. I expect only the people benefiting from their work and the delivery of this server to be interested in helping. The extra bandwidth is only bought when it is needed and the donations are held for that purpose.

Mugs? At the minimal amount we need to operate that might be a little hard to do. Might have just been a question thrown it because it is at some point valid. I do need to setup some sort of recognition for those who choose to donate even at this point. Leaderbuilder made a generous donation today which actually is enough to cover 2 weeks of average usage from sfhub.

The base cost of operating the server and the line comes out of my pocket. The cost of expanding on this single server is 20 a Terabyte per month and shopping around reputable providers with 1 Gbps uplinks until I go 100 TB+ is pretty cheap actually. I am still looking though, If I have to expand beyond a couple servers or to high usage I will have to go with another provider.

I would be happy to answer any additional question whether its in this thread or in pm from donators or interested parties. But as for this very moment I am running out the door but I wanted to answer these so far as best as I can for the moment.

Yes it would be massive and since I could not make it my full time job I would have to bring other people in for sure. It would be costly, to server XDA on just the North American continent would be one challenge, Globally I don't even want to get into that headache? Would have to ditch my current setup for global, still have to use multiple servers and load balancing to do NA.

The amount of bandwidth usage to serve all of XDA especially on 1 Gbps lines is pretty costly. 100 TB to unmetered usually runs hundreds to a couple thousand.

Everyones experience will be different though its mainly 2 things. Your internet connection and your route to Chicago for the current setup. If we went CDN style this would alleviate some route issues and leave it mostly to isp speeds. 2 Mbps of course is 16 Mbps and if you were paying for 20 Mbps that would be expected. I live halfway across the country from the server my ISP is 25 Mbps i get 22 constant. But I have heard from plenty of people on 50 to 135 Mbps Cable/Fiber who have been hitting me up pretty fast.

Forgive me for anything I missed and the spelling I have to run ill see you guys in a few hours. Might be able to post while I am out.