Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-19 Thread Simon Paillard
Hi, On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:07:05PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > On Wed Oct 16, 2013 at 21:01:08 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 07:54:04PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Simon Paillard said: [..] > > * Our (mirrors@d.o) is to have h

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-19 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Wed Oct 16, 2013 at 21:01:08 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 07:54:04PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Simon Paillard said: > > > We already have a network of almost 400 packages mirrors around the world. > > > Using http.d.n, pr

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Raphael Geissert said: > They do require a bit more work as they can not be added to the mirrors > master list - they are "dumb" caching proxies that can not guarantee the > consistency of the view of the archive they provide. Here's where I disagree > with Russ as a

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-19 Thread Raphael Geissert
Stephen Gran wrote: > We have had one > report that someone gets better throughput off of their existing mirror > than they do from one of the CDNs offering their support. If we get > better coverage for a small number of users and worse coverage for most > of our existing users, that's clearly no

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Ian Jackson said: > I don't see a clear explanation of what the motivation is to switch to > a commercial CDN. Can you clarify ? That will help us understand > what we would be giving up if we decline to make this change. There are probably several having to do with