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The Debian Project                               https://www.debian.org/
New Debian security mirror for Asia                     pr...@debian.org
February 6th, 2015             https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150206
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The Debian Project is pleased to announce a new security.debian.org
mirror with hardware and hosting provided by SAKURA Internet, Inc. The
new host is located in and serves content from Japan.

The hardware and hosting donation will allow the Debian Systems
Administration (DSA) team to improve Debian's core services by providing
a security mirror archive for Asia and is another step towards
decentralized and stable security mirror access for world.

"In combination with the GeoDNS feature used by Debian, the new mirror
should speed up downloads for our users in that geographical area
drastically. This is a welcome improvement in the worldwide coverage of
dedicated official security.debian.org mirrors, administrated by the
Debian project" said Martin Zobel-Helas, a member of the Debian System
Administrator team.

"SAKURA Internet is a leading Japanese hosting service provider which
hosts many servers running the Debian operating system. SAKURA is very
honored to have an opportunity to support Debian's security mirror
system and wishes to continue supporting the Debian community" says
Kunihiro Tanaka, Founder, CEO, and President of SAKURA Internet.


About SAKURA Internet
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SAKURA Internet, Inc (3778:Tokyo) is a leading independent Internet Data
Center service provider in Japan. The company has been engaging in the
provision of Internet services since 1996 and has gained many customers
and users through offering server rental services, hosting, VPS, and
data center services including Cloud Computing.

Learn more about SAKURA's newest Data Center at
http://ishikari.sakura.ad.jp/index_eng.html


About Debian
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The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".


Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <pr...@debian.org>.

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