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Marcus

Open source infra reliability on US big tech is a bit of a problem. For instance dependence of AWS and Fastly. European Universities have a lot of compute and bandwidth, I wish they would collaborate to provide popular open source projects a less commercial alternative. There was a time when most of us got all our stuff from university ftp mirrors.

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maswan

@marcus
@lennart There are still plenty of university mirrors around, and if a project is willing to give an rsync source and run mirrorbits or similar for redirecting downloads, managing to find 100+ Gbit/s of mirror capacity is fairly easy.

This has fallen out of fashion though with newer projects, because CDNs are more modern, etc.

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Raito Bezarius

@marcus unlikely, IME, European universities usually do not understand the problem space, does not want to provide help (the few rare ones that does are amazing, but cannot offer a lot in general)

I also hoped to see them champion this effort but alas.

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