April 2025 - Arch-mirrors-announce

[mirror.franscorack.com] Notice of maintenance
by Franscobec 19 Apr '25

19 Apr '25

One of the servers used for running mirror.franscorack.com will enter maintenance at a later date this month (estimates ~ April 25th). Multiple drives in multiple ZFS pools are currently dying, and instead of simply replacing those drives, the server will be upgraded to a single new bigger storage pool. Why the change? The storage comes from my old NAS and the current pool config is all over the place (There are 6 pools in total). The changes will remove complexity, improve reliability and consistency as the new drives are all of the same model and upgraded from a mix of desktop & NAS (even some laptop drives, I have no idea why I did this) class to fully enterprise-class SAS drives. More precise dates will be announced when the delivery date for the new hardware gets closer. Impact on mirror.franscorack.com: - Moderate performance degradation during the operation (3 GBPS -> ~1GBPS, caused by slower storage). Note: The mirror will not go offline during this operation since there is a loadbalancer in place that will redirect all traffic to slower but working servers (2 in total). Affected server: https://specs.franscorack.com/delta

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MeowSMP.net mirror maintenance is over.
by MeowIce 12 Apr '25

12 Apr '25

Hello, Our *MeowSMP.net Mirror *maintenance was completed and full bandwidth was restored. Users should clear their DNS cache to see the changes. All repositories are being synced, so you should wait for a few minutes. The RSYNC protocol is back working now. Thank you. *MeowIce*

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arch-mirror.marcusspencer.xyz/arch.mirror.marcusspencer.us HTTP port has been closed
by marcus＠marcusspencer.xyz 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

I have officially closed the HTTP port (which was just a redirect to HTTPS anyway). I previously said I would close it on April 8, 2025 or when pacman-mirrorlist got an update removing the HTTP endpoint, whichever happened later. April 8, 2025 happened later. It's just a coincidence that it's being closed on the 1 year anniversary of the 2024 solar eclipse. The closure date is just 60 days after the endpoint got removed from the mirror status page.

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MeowSMP.net up-coming mirror outage.
by MeowIce 05 Apr '25

05 Apr '25

Hello, Please note that the main *MeowSMP.net* mirror (which serves all projects) will be offline for scheduled maintenance on *13 April 2025*, from *06:00 to 12:00 GMT+7* (Vietnam time). During this period, a fallback server (with reduced speed) will spin to life to temporarily serve users. Full speed will be restored once maintenance is complete. Thank you for your understanding. Best regards, *MeowIce*

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