Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN
]] Philip Hands
> Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
>
> ...
> > Nobody has suggested removing the mirror network. What's being
> > discussed is using a CDN for some .d.o services.
>
> That was certainly not clear from your original post.
>
> I certainly read you as suggesting that some services could be moved to
> third-party CDN(s), with an eye to moving ftp.debian.org there to, with
> the implication that the mirror network would then become mostly
> redundant.
«Become redundant» is not the same as being removed, though. It would
initially be something we ran alongside the regular mirror network
(anything else would be crazy for what I think are obvious reasons).
If our experiences are then positive, we might want to stop relying on
the mirror network in say, d-i, but there's not central planning
committee shutting down any mirrors.
Local mirrors choose whether they want to carry Debian or not, and I
suspect many of them will want to use the resources for other things if
the usage falls below a threshold. Whether that actually happens or not
amounts to predicting the future, something I'm not going to try to do.
Does that make it clearer, or is it still confusing?
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Tollef Fog Heen
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