There's usually 3 main windows where the archive servers are under heavy load. EU, UK/UTC, and US east. The UTC 0630 - 0700 window is usually the biggest hit.
For the cloud argument, people run CI jobs spinning up new instances in the cloud. Tools such as cloud-init and juju will normally run apt-get dist-upgrade on boot to ensure instances are up-to-date. One such example is LP bug #1561173. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1615482 Title: apt-daily timer runs at random hours of the day To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1615482/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
