Subject: [bug#33600] Using a CDN or some other mirror?

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:47:20 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> These patches (actually the last one) switch Guix to default to
>> <https://ci.guix.info> 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’t have currently for
> berlin.
>
> Thus, I’m thinking about using a similar setup, but hosting the mirror
> 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