Serving mIRC on your Server

With more and more mIRC users the stress on the servers that distribute mIRC is rising. To solve this we're looking for Internet Providers all over the world that can host our installation files. To cover the first hours after each new mIRC release we need some new hosts to spread the load.

How can you help?

You can help by providing space for mIRC's distribution files, and maybe the mIRC FAQ, on your FTP server(s). Please understand that we will -not- upload files to personal (Internet) accounts and/or private (home) FTP or Web servers. I'm sure you understand why; we need firm machines here, and admin's that don't blush over thousands of downloads per day. In the past accounts (and the files) very often disappeared suddenly when an account was terminated and/or moved to another provider. mIRC's files have to be available 24 hours a day, every day, year round! If you are a home user this is not for you, sorry.

Upload service for Internet Providers only.

I assume you fully understand what is happening during the release of a popular program like mIRC? A herd of hundreds, thousands, will rush to, on and over your server and rip the files off, whatever it takes! Are you prepared and able to withstand this load on your servers (and uplink) for several hours - maybe days - several times a year? Totally out-of-the-blue? We never announce releases up front... receiving virtually no recognition?

Of course, if lots of providers participate you all share the load. In the past months most participating servers have served about 2.000 files on average per day. After the recent release of mIRC 6.12 some servers in the USA serve 10.000 copies of mIRC per day (300 Gig per month!), some about 4000 copies. Most European servers send out about 2000 copies of mIRC per day! This all depending on location, releases, slashdot and the moon thing...

Please do not underestimate the impact of serving mIRC!?

What do we expect?

If you still think you can help us, we hope you can create and test a free upload account for us. Send all account info we need (host, login, passwd, location, url) and we will upload the mIRC files right away and the moment new ones become available. We use a special script to upload the files. We expect the files to be available for download right away, without any human interaction, or post-processing, for all anonymous users, and the account to be available for a loooooong time, like years.

Please talk this over with your boss or collegues before you offer to help us?

Host:
Login:	mirc
Passw:
Upload dir:
Download URL:
Location:	Country, State, City
Your name:
Your Email address:
Backup contact name:
Backup Email address:

This is the information we need to know from you. Please send it to tjerk@mirc.com

Mirroring.

Given the rush each new mIRC release causes all over the world, automatic mirroring of the files is not really an option. We need the files to be there exactly the moment we announce the new version. Right after our file uploader has finished we check your server for the files, inform all software archives of the new version and start the announcement mailing list with about a million readers!

Still there? ;-)

If you have additional questions or some other offer please contact us.