[Nix-dev] Need any mirror in Asia?
Frank
frank87 at xs4all.nl
Tue May 9 14:10:25 CEST 2017
Why don't we host the system on IPFS?
( https//ipfs.io )
It would be nice to use URL's like: ipfs://jhgwybmjhgsd/my_file but is
would fit nicely in nixos
Greetings,
Frank
Op 8-5-2017 om 18:44 schreef zimbatm:
>
> How I see the setup, it would be a HTTP reverse proxy with caching
> enabled. That way only the accessed files are transferred over,
> avoiding unnecessary traffic. One downside is that it requires a bit
> of tuning and monitoring to make sure it's running efficiently. First
> accesses to files are also doing the full round trip.
>
> https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-caching-guide/ is a pretty good
> example setup for nging, where upstream would be cache.nixos.org
> <http://cache.nixos.org> . A few things need to be turned, for example
> the cache TTL should be much bigger than the 10min that they set.
> Ideally all content-addressable files would never invalidate unless
> the disk is full, in that case they should LRU.
>
> Let me know if you need more details or if this enough to get going.
>
>
> On Mon, 8 May 2017, 16:53 Karibu, <karibu at freedif.org
> <mailto:karibu at freedif.org>> wrote:
>
> Thanks for sharing Daniel, I see another thread around my same topic
> ("still waiting for https://cache.nixos.org after 5 seconds..."). So
> I'm happy to see such open discussion.
>
> It seems they have some projects in the pipe to improve the delivery.
> But I will be happy to support in a short or long term (secondary
> cache
> layer,...)
>
> I'm currently having a 100M, but I'm thinking of upgrading to 1G.
> (Just
> a new offer, more expansive of course but for a reasonable price
> still.
> IMO)
>
> Kari
>
> On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 08:15 -0400, Daniel Peebles wrote:
> > Copying this from another related thread:
> https://mailman.science.uu.
> > nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2016-October/022029.html
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Karibu <karibu at freedif.org
> <mailto:karibu at freedif.org>> wrote:
> > > Hi Zimbatm,
> > >
> > > This would be the first time for me.
> > >
> > > Can yoy brief me on the details and tools needed?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > On May 7, 2017 22:48, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com
> <mailto:zimbatm at zimbatm.com>> wrote:
> > > @Karibu: is it possible to setup the mirror as a secondary layer
> > > cache instead?
> > >
> > > On Thu, 4 May 2017 at 14:18 Volth <volth at volth.com
> <mailto:volth at volth.com>> wrote:
> > > Actually, there are regions with bad connectity to Amazon's
> > > Cloudfront.
> > > For example Russia, and, yes, Vietnam.
> > >
> > > There are few obstacles:
> > > 1. the distribution model is not rsync-friendly and not well
> suited
> > > for 3rd-party mirrors.
> > > 2. there is a team promising to solve the geo-distribution issue
> > > using IPFS. There is no results yet but the expectation from their
> > > works lower priority of alternative solutions.
> > > 3. the majority of developers (and users?) are located in Cenral
> > > Europe (NL,DE,CZ,SI,...) so the geodistrubution issue get very
> > > little
> > > traction.
> > >
> > > On 5/4/17, Karibu <karibu at freedif.org
> <mailto:karibu at freedif.org>> wrote:
> > > > Thanks for the prompt reply.
> > > > So you don't need any mirror in Asia and no issue from the speed
> > > there
> > > > I suppose.
> > > >
> > > > If one day, you will need one, you can count on me.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Kari
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 14:43 +0200, Domen Kožar wrote:
> > > >> This is not Gentoo. Our infrastructure is hosted by Amazon S3
> > > and
> > > >> globally distributed over cloudflare CDN.
> > > >>
> > > >> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Karibu <karibu at freedif.org
> <mailto:karibu at freedif.org>>
> > > wrote:
> > > >> > Hi guys,
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Any idea about the RSYNC url I should use to do a mirror?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Thanks
> > > >> >
> > > >> > On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 21:09 +0700, Karibu wrote:
> > > >> > > Hehe no problem.
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > Any mirror admin or dev to let me know the RSYNC url.
> > > >> > > Thanks
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > Kari
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 00:47 +0800, Wei Tang wrote:
> > > >> > > >
> > > >> > > > Hi Karibu,
> > > >> > > >
> > > >> > > > I live in Hong Kong, and I would definitely appreciate a
> > > mirror
> > > >> > in
> > > >> > > > Asia.
> > > >> > > >
> > > >> > > > -- Wei
> > > >> > > >
> > > >> > > > Karibu writes:
> > > >> > > >
> > > >> > > > >
> > > >> > > > >
> > > >> > > > > Hi guys,
> > > >> > > > > I am the admin of the Vietnamese mirror (and blog)
> > > >> > freedif.org <http://freedif.org>
> > > >> > > > > (mirror.freedif.org <http://mirror.freedif.org>)
> > > >> > > > >
> > > >> > > > > I have some spare bandwidth and space and would like to
> > > >> > support
> > > >> > > > > your
> > > >> > > > > project.
> > > >> > > > >
> > > >> > > > > Do you need a mirror in Vietnam (no problem to support
> > > >> > > > > neighbourhood
> > > >> > > > > countries)
> > > >> > > > >
> > > >> > > > > Thanks
> > > >> > > > >
> > > >> > > > > Kari
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