Its sad to see that mirror program is being discontinued. It has been our honour to be part of PHP network and community.
Technology has indeed advanced. Every country has better internet infrastructure and bandwidth. CDN of course, does the magic :) I will be glad to provide any assistance anytime, if required. Best wishes... Bhavin Chandarana IndiaLinks Web Hosting Pvt Ltd > On 27-Feb-2019, at 9:57 PM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote: > > Hi! > > The PHP.net website has in the last 20 years made use of an extensive > network of mirrors_ to make the PHP documentation available, and > distribute source tarballs_. These mirrors have been maintained by > members and companies in the PHP eco-system for many valuable years. > However, the administration of the mirror system is often haphazard, > with few contributors helping out—PHP is Open Source, and this is simply > how these things can go. > > Maintaining the mirrors is now no longer sustainable, and also hinders > the take up of moving the PHP.net website fully to HTTPS. Because the > PHP.net team has no access to the mirror servers, we also can't make > sure the mirrors are up-to-date, and some mirrors are still running PHP > 5.3 (actually, about 25% still run PHP 5.3!). > > It is likely no longer necessary to have a mirror system in place, as > unlike 20 years ago, it is not nearly has hard as setting up a > distributed cache system. As a matter of fact, some of the PHP.net web > site, through http://www.php.net/, already sits behind a Content > Delivery Network (CDN) from Myra_, which is sponsored by long time PHP > contributor Sascha Schumann. > > With these preliminaries out of the way, I would therefore like to > announce the discontinuation of PHP.net's mirroring program. Instead of > having mirrors, we are moving all of PHP.net to HTTPS (and get rid of > https://secure.php.net), and move them behind Myra's CDN, with the same > local content delivery opportunities, but at significantly less > administration requirements. > > In the next week or so, I will e-mail out a plan on which steps are > necessary for this move. I'd be happy to hear any comments on when the > plan comes out. > > To end this email, I would very much like to thank all the mirror > maintainers for their dedication, time, and bandwidth over all these > years. Thanks! > > cheers, > Derick > > .. _mirrors: http://php.net/mirrors.php > .. _tarballs: http://uk3.php.net/downloads.php > .. _Myra: https://myracloud.com/en/ > > -- > https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io > Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: https://xdebug.org/donate.php, > or become my Patron: https://www.patreon.com/derickr > twitter: @derickr and @xdebug -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
