On May 26, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote:
> </farnsworth> > > but seriously, at long last today it was my honor to throw the DNS switch to > move PyPI to the Fastly caching CDN. I would like to thank Donald Stufft for > doing much of the heavy lifting on the PyPI side, and to Fastly for > graciously offering to host us. What does this mean for everyone? Well the > biggest change is PyPI should get a whole lot faster. There are two major > downsides however. There will now be a delay of several minutes in some cases > between updating a package and having it be installable, and download counts > will now be even more incorrect than they were before. The PyPI admins are > discussing what to do about download counts long-term, but for now we all > feel that the performance and availability benefits outweigh the loss. If > anyone has any questions, or hears anything about issues with PyPI please > don't hesitate to contact me. > > --Noah > > ________________________________________________ > Infrastructure mailing list > infrastruct...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/infrastructure/donald%40stufft.io One addition. Eventually PyPI will move towards using the Fastly API for cache invalidation so that uploading a new package _will_ be immediately available. But that was deferred in order to get the larger benefit *now*. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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