On 28/02/2017 16:47, Jean Louis wrote: > Are there so many users downloading the software, that the project > managers lack the money for hosting? Isn't hosting today pretty cheap?
It's the opposite of lack of money; CDNs are just as expensive as regular high-quality hosting (which is _not_ cheap: hosting for QEMU for example costs a few hundred dollars every month for example). Apart from lower latency, the main thing that they provide is resistance to DOS attacks. Without a CDN, if you are attacked you have to pay for the bandwidth consumed by the attackers; a CDN instead detects the issue and blocks their traffic. The issue of Tor exit nodes being blocked by CDNs because someone else is using those node for nefarious purposes should be well known to Tor users. If there is a list of CDNs that support running without Javascript enabled, that would be nice to have (though that probably wouldn't "fix" wget, because you still have to solve the Captcha or something like that). But I don't think it is fair to single out GNU Radio for having chosen Cloudflare; most users do not ever see the captcha and it's possible that the GNU Radio administrators weren't even aware of its presence. Paolo
