On 12 December 2012 21:10, Brad Roberts <bra...@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Iain Buclaw wrote: > >> On 12 December 2012 17:29, Brad Anderson <e...@gnuk.net> wrote: >> > On Monday, 10 December 2012 at 00:34:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: >> >> >> >> It's time to do a release; to that end we should be working on tidying up >> >> the regressions. >> >> >> >> This will be the last official D1 release. >> > >> > >> > Just a heads up, GitHub has removed their Uploads feature[1]. Current >> > uploads still work but this next release is going to need to either go back >> > to the Digital Mars server like it was before or find a new home. I prefer >> > the latter for speed reasons. Amazon S3 is fast and works well (it's what >> > GitHub Uploads was backed by) and should be fairly affordable for the sizes >> > we are talking about (I'd guess $3-4 per month). >> > >> > http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/gsg/GetStartedWithS3.html >> > >> > >> > >> > [1] https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads >> >> I can offer a server for that, hosted a datacentre in the UK. If I >> recall correctly, the net link are behind a 100GB link, testing the >> net speed, I get 250MB/s upload speed to Europe, only 20MB/s upload to >> America though. >> >> >> Regards, >> -- >> Iain Buclaw > > Generous offer. I've been meaning to build packaging into the auto-tester > for both release builds and more frequent (nightly or maybe even every > cycle) builds. I was going to toss them into s3 with a cloudfront > distribution in front of that. Sounds like that needs to go higher on the > todo list given github's recent changes. > > The advantage of CloudFront is fast access all over the planet, though it > has a cost associated with it. I'll bear that until it starts to hurt.
It's one of the perks of working in a UK-based cloud hosting company. I have been given the go ahead to build a server used as an auto-tester (initially intended specifically for GDC, though can throw in a DMD auto-tester too). Though one of the downsides would be that if I were to leave, so would the site. I also have another server host in the UK by Linode (this I pay for) - currently only used for gdcproject.org - this could be used as an EU based mirror for downloads. Regards -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';