I enjoyed reading this, but Fastly’s Fast Forward provides free CDN services for open source projects which might help with the “most Linux distributions are free and thus don’t have a project budget to spin up a global CDN” problem.
I have no experience of Fast Forward myself, but I’ve heard that OpenStreetMap and meta::cpan have benefited from it, and I’m sure others have too.
Still, running a CDN off repurposed thin clients is very impressive.
It’s also a unknown when Fastly will do a rug-pull and stop supporting Open Source projects with a free CDN, so building your own, as well as using Fastly’s is probably the best way to go.
Interesting, I know for certain there are some void hosts in that region. Probably need to make sure their mirrors are pointed correctly to warm the cache.
if you haven’t listened to Kenneth’s episode of On The Metal do yourself a favor and rectify that ASAP
If you want to listen to it in a podcast app, here’s the Overcast page for it.
I always wanted more of this podcast. Turns out they do more shorter-form content on Twitter spaces or something. Haven’t listened to any yet though.
I enjoyed reading this, but Fastly’s Fast Forward provides free CDN services for open source projects which might help with the “most Linux distributions are free and thus don’t have a project budget to spin up a global CDN” problem.
I have no experience of Fast Forward myself, but I’ve heard that OpenStreetMap and meta::cpan have benefited from it, and I’m sure others have too.
Still, running a CDN off repurposed thin clients is very impressive.
It’s also a unknown when Fastly will do a rug-pull and stop supporting Open Source projects with a free CDN, so building your own, as well as using Fastly’s is probably the best way to go.
Hosting files on CloudFlare R2 is 0.015 / gb-month with no egress costs.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/
I could reasonably see a small homebrew linux distro having 100GB in downloadable assets, that would be 1.5$ a month.
Void recently started offering a Fastly mirror, but I find it slow compared to the other Tier 1 mirrors
Really? That’s interesting! What region are you in?
Montgomery County, Maryland, US
Checking again, it seems like the issue is that Fastly almost never has anything in cache
Interesting, I know for certain there are some void hosts in that region. Probably need to make sure their mirrors are pointed correctly to warm the cache.
Kenneth is amazing! His writeups about BGP and networking inspired me to set up my own tiny AS.
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Who needs to pay for someone else’s CDN anyway? :D