From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror? Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:47:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87wooqgwx3.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20181203154335.10366-1-ludo@gnu.org> <87tvju6145.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45887) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTv7u-0006AS-UJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:47:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTv7s-0000RT-Vk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:47:34 -0500 In-reply-to: <87tvju6145.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, 33600@debbugs.gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hello, > > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s skribis: > >> These patches (actually the last one) switch Guix to default to >> for substitutes, in preparation for the >> upcoming 0.16.0 release (hopefully this week!). > > Right now, ci.guix.info points to berlin.guixsd.org, the front-end of > the build farm hosted at the MDC. > > The previous setup was that mirror.hydra.gnu.org mirrors hydra.gnu.org > (the actual build farm front-end) using an nginx proxy: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/hydra/nginx= /mirror.conf > > This provides a bit of redundancy that we don=E2=80=99t have currently for > berlin. > > Thus, I=E2=80=99m thinking about using a similar setup, but hosting the m= irror > on some Big Corp CDN or similar. Chris Marusich came up with a setup > along these lines a while back: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-03/msg00312.html Large ISPs also provide CDN services. I already contacted Deutsche Telekom so that we can compare their CDN offer with the Amazon Cloudfont setup that Chris has configured. -- Ricardo