Estel, thanks for your constructive post. While I don't completely agree with your conclusions, you make some very good points and I think this is exactly what should be discussed.

Does anyone have any stats on traffic from the repositories? I realise this is hard to measure with the CDN but I was hoping someone gets reports. Preferably with some previous data so we can see some trends. If we don't have data now, can we get some over the next 12 months so we know what the costs would be (whether it is simply provided by a private individual or arranged through a legal entity)?

EDIT: Please don't interpret my first paragraph as suggesting that SD69's comment is not constructive or valuable. It wasn't there when I originally composed this reply!