Debian 6 OVZ template

[jcaleb]

I have a small suggestion, but may not be needed by other power users. anyways, here it goes: for debian 6 ovz template, could it come pre-configured to point at the fastest mirror/location? I think it just have the default, that may be in US, Im not sure. But it is slow. What I did on mine is copy the sources.list from my KVM, because the installation from iso helps you select the best mirror.

[unclesal]

Good suggestion

An updated template was prepared, I just had no time to test it and replace the old one

[jcaleb]

I am not sure of feasibility, but Uncle Sal, is it possible to host your own debian and ubuntu mirror ? That would be very fast and not consume external bandwidth much

[Admin]

It is possible, however, there are mirrors in the same datacenter in Italy it would be no change of speed and bandwidth is not a problem.
Uncle Sal thought of this problem earlier and I had similar issues with slow debian mirrors so did the templates, also changed time zone and a few other tweaks (eliminated samba...).
I can provide you one for testing ? Maybe say what else needs to be done.

Admin

[jcaleb]

Thanks Admin/Uncle. Can you share the entry? Maybe that one is faster than what I found on mine =)

[Admin]

Ah, nothing fancy, standard debian, ftp.it.debian.org.

Admin

[jcaleb]

thank you

[NanoG6]

I never change the repo mirror. I'm pretty confidence Prometeus network is fast with large pipe, so it shouldn't matter which repo I'm using.

[unclesal]

Actually the ftp.debian.org may be the bottleneck, so switching to a different repository can make a lot of difference when you are doing a lot of upgrade