Hello there,

May I confirm is this official from Cloudflare?

Yours faithfully,
Ivan Ip<m@lifeho.me>

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:55 AM Sevki Hasirci <s@sevki.org> wrote:
>
> I'll just leave the one I did when I was at CF here then :) https://cloudflaremirrors.com/archlinux
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 8:46 PM Kristian Klausen via arch-mirrors <arch-mirrors@archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 26.01.2020 17.19, Kristian Klausen via arch-mirrors wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I'm considering setting up a Arch Linux mirror and I'm considering a
>> > different design.
>> >
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I just got time to implement this and the setup looks like this:
>> Cloudflare -> Cloudflare Workers -> Backblaze B2 bucket <- Tier1 mirror
>>
>> The files is synced from mirror.ams1.nl.leaseweb.net every hour to the
>> Backblaze B2 bucket and they are fetched from the bucket with the help
>> of a Cloudflare Workers script.
>> Cloudflare is configured to cache everything (size <=2GB*), database
>> files is cached for 5 minute everything else is cached for 24 hours.
>> * CF is sponsoring a plan with a higher limit than the 512MB default
>>
>> I have done some quick testing, and time to first byte isn't impressive
>> (at least not when downloading from Europe), but the speed is acceptable
>> (80-100MB/s is achievable if the file is cached, and 8-12MB/s if not
>> (tested from Europe)).
>>
>> To make it easier to implement, I took some shortcuts:
>> * Directory listing isn't implemented
>> * "latest" files isn't synced
>> * Only packages in "pool/" is synced, the package files in the different
>> repo isn't synced, but if you request a package
>> (\.pkg\.tar\.(xz|zst)(|.sig)$) it is automatic retrieved from the pool/
>> directory. This means that you can download ex Firefox from both:
>> https://archlinux.amirror.xyz/extra/os/x86_64/firefox-73.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
>> https://archlinux.amirror.xyz/community/os/x86_64/firefox-73.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
>>
>> I'm not sure if the shortcuts is acceptable, but it can be fixed if it
>> is a issue.
>>
>> Also please note that: archive, other and sources isn't synced.
>>
>> Feel free to try it out: https://archlinux.amirror.xyz/
>>
>> Best regards
>> Kristian Klausen
>>
>> > So instead of mirroring the whole thing, the idea is to mirror only
>> > the database files (core.db etc) and download the packages on demand
>> > from a Tier 1 mirror (and let nginx cache them). By doing it that way,
>> > I only download requested packages from the Tier 1 mirrors, instead of
>> > downloading the whole thing (saving Tier 1 bandwidth).
>> >
>> > To provide even better performance a CDN (ex: Cloudflare) could be
>> > used to provide more caching. So we end up with a setup like this:
>> > Cloudflare -> Nginx cache -> Tier1 mirrors (nginx with multiple upstream)
>> >
>> > Do I miss something? Is this a bad idea?
>> > If I do setup a mirror like that, is there any chance it could be
>> > added as a official mirror?
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> > Kristian Klausen