Dear list, I have set up an Amazon Cloudfront mirror for Exherbo distfiles, available at <http://distfiles.exherbo.djc.id.au/>. (Cloudfront is Amazon's hosted CDN product.) I encourage you to try it out and let me know how well it performs for you. You can drop a line like this into your /etc/paludis/mirrors.conf:
* http://distfiles.exherbo.djc.id.au/ The mirror is cached live from <http://distfiles.exherbo.org/>. I'm hoping that Cloudfront's caches will help to alleviate bandwidth usage on distfiles.exherbo.org somewhat, and maybe provide some cache locality too. I've also set up a mirror of Exherbo stages, backed by S3. It's available at <http://stages.exherbo.djc.id.au/> in case anyone finds that useful. Unfortunately symlinks aren't supported on S3 so the -current names are not available. I'm not sure whether using Cloudfront for this stuff is actually going to save bandwidth, or just be a waste of money. Amazon don't publish any details about their caching policies (like size limits or eviction times), nor do they provide any statistics, so I have no way to see things like cache hit rates. I'm interested to hear your observations. -- Dan Callaghan <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
