Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Brielmaier writes:
> I'm running myself a smaller cuirass+publish server and I have > configured the caching on the nginx side and not with `guix publish`. > > So my cache resides in: > /var/cache/nginx/nar/ > > For me it has a dramatic speed up on my German server reaching from > Germany. So 2-3MB/s on a cold cache hit versus a hot cache with 15MB/s > and even more. > > Maybe you can give that a try. I'm not sure if it does help as you said > you are a bit limited by the bandwidth... I am perfectly fine with any method to setup a mirror site. But the academic mirror sites I am talking about only want a simple approach. They want to pull files with rsync, rclone, or FTP and serve files with static HTTP server. If we make Guix's mirror as simple as that, I am confident I can persuade more mirror sites to support Guix. > On 04.11.20 09:46, Peng Mei Yu wrote: >> I have to decide next year's server specs and budget for >> mirror.guix.org.cn before the Chinese shopping festival ends on November >> 11. If the proposal above is doable, I will keep mirror.guix.org.cn >> running for half a year and help academic mirror sites add support for >> Guix in the meantime. Otherwise I prefer to buy a prepaid three years >> VPS with a 90% discount during the shopping festival. The discount is >> huge. I don't want to miss it. > > I think we should discuss if Guix can support your effort money wise. > AFAIK we have decent fundings available. That would be great. Although I still think letting academic mirror sites do the job and saving the money would be better. As I said, the ISP cost in China is expensive and academic mirror sites have plenty of bandwidth and storage resources available. -- Peng Mei Yu
