Hello,As you may be aware, the Arch Linux DevOps team maintains a Tier 1 (T1) geomirror in major geographical regions [0]. These are sponsored physical servers or virtual machines (VMs) that are fully managed by the DevOps team. In addition to serving as a T1 mirror, the geomirror hosts the Arch Linux archive - essential for reproducible builds and rolling back to previous released packages - in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Furthermore, it provides static endpoints for container images, VM images, libvirt, and WSL images (planned).
However, with the sunsetting of Equinix Metal's free tier [1] and the loss of our only contact for the Kape-sponsored servers, these mirrors are now on borrowed time.
This email is a request for sponsored VMs to allow the DevOps team to continue maintaining the geomirror infrastructure.
Below are the requirements for a sponsored server:- Full root access for DevOps, managed via Ansible and preferable the VM should run Arch Linux - Compliance with the requirements for a T1 mirror as described in the Arch Linux wiki [2]
- Really prefer a 1G/s upload _and_ download bandwidth - Expected traffic details are documented in a related GitLab issue [3]We greatly appreciate any volunteers willing to support this effort and look forward to hearing from you.
[0]: https://archlinux.org/mirrors/geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/ [1]: https://deploy.equinix.com/blog/sunsetting-equinix-metal/ [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors [3]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/664 Thank you, Arch Linux DevOps team -- Leonidas Spyropoulos Developer & DevOps PGP: 59E43E106B247368 244740D17C7FD0EC
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