On 2/8/25 3:02 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:
Hello,As you may be aware, the Arch Linux DevOps team maintains a Tier 1 (T1) geomirror in major geographical regions [0]. These are sponsored physical servers or virtual machines (VMs) that are fully managed by the DevOps team. In addition to serving as a T1 mirror, the geomirror hosts the Arch Linux archive - essential for reproducible builds and rolling back to previous released packages - in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Furthermore, it provides static endpoints for container images, VM images, libvirt, and WSL images (planned).However, with the sunsetting of Equinix Metal's free tier [1] and the loss of our only contact for the Kape-sponsored servers, these mirrors are now on borrowed time.This email is a request for sponsored VMs to allow the DevOps team to continue maintaining the geomirror infrastructure.Below are the requirements for a sponsored server:- Full root access for DevOps, managed via Ansible and preferable the VM should run Arch Linux - Compliance with the requirements for a T1 mirror as described in the Arch Linux wiki [2]- Really prefer a 1G/s upload _and_ download bandwidth - Expected traffic details are documented in a related GitLab issue [3]We greatly appreciate any volunteers willing to support this effort and look forward to hearing from you.[0]: https://archlinux.org/mirrors/geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/ [1]: https://deploy.equinix.com/blog/sunsetting-equinix-metal/ [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors [3]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/664 Thank you, Arch Linux DevOps team
Hello again!Aside from myket.ir, I can also provide vms (4GB, 4 core CPUs, 200GB and more HDD) from my own bare metal servers on Hetzner Co. located in FSN1 (Data Center Park Falkenstein, Germany) with 1Gb uplink.
As there are lots of Tier 2 mirrors in Germany, I have not applied for another Tier 2 mirror before, or maybe I did some time in the past 4 or 5 years? I don't remember really.
Either way please let me know in either thread if I can help. Best Regards, Amin Vakil
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