From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror? Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 12:46:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20181203154335.10366-1-ludo@gnu.org> <87tvju6145.fsf@gnu.org> <34d346ac-fc0a-aac2-f092-8a57e345c4e6@goebel-consult.de> <87woop1j5z.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]:36285) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUVdQ-00077y-Ab for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:46:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUVdM-0002zU-Np for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:46:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87woop1j5z.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US 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: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Am 04.12.2018 um 15:05 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: > We shouldn=E2=80=99t take it for granted that public institutes will > happily host our stuff and donate hardware I would not expect them nor take for granted that some organization will host and even donate a build-farm. This is indeed very generous from MDC,= As you wrote, we are in need of storage. What I'm suggesting is: Many, many organizations support open source projects by donating disk-space and bandwidth in form of a mirror. Supporters are internet providers, universities, publicly founded organizations=C2=A0 and compani= es. In former time this have been ftp-mirrors (later with an http-interface), in the meanwhile the larger ones support rsync, too. And many Software projects are using these kind of servers for mirroring their software. The only restriction is that these mirrors are serving static files only. (I assume you all know.) > In the meantime, we need redundant storage, high bandwidth, and high > availability. If you know of non-profit organizations that can provide= > such services, please let us know; if not, we=E2=80=99ll resort to a co= mmercial > service. The bottom line is: we cannot reasonably pretend to offer suc= h > a service ourselves. One could get in touch with the administrators of some of the mirrors used by other distributions. [1] has a list of Mirrors for Fedora, including location and bandwidth. [2] is a list of mirrors used by the community driven distribution Mageia, additionally including the "upstream" - which might help prioritizing. When approaching some of these server admins, we should pass them some relevant information like expected storage demand, expected transfer traffic from upstream, how often updates are published, how long to hold copies, can we provide a rsync server access, etc. I can approach two or three organizations I know of (but don't have any contact) if I have some information to provide. A cover letter would help a lot. For getting in tough with universities somebody working at an university might have better chances :-) [1] Fedora 28: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/mirrors/Fedora/28 [2] Mageia: https://mirrors.mageia.org/ [3] Debian "Secondary mirrors" in https://www.debian.org/mirror/list --=20 +++hartmut | Hartmut Goebel | | | hartmut@goebel-consult.de | www.goebel-consult.de |