Hello,

As you may be aware, the Arch Linux DevOps team maintains a Tier 1 (T1)
geomirror in major geographical regions [0]. These are sponsored
physical servers or virtual machines (VMs) that are fully managed by the
DevOps team. In addition to serving as a T1 mirror, the geomirror hosts
the Arch Linux archive - essential for reproducible builds and rolling
back to previous released packages - in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Furthermore, it provides static endpoints for container images, VM
images, libvirt, and WSL images (planned).

However, with the sunsetting of Equinix Metal's free tier [1] and the
loss of our only contact for the Kape-sponsored servers, these mirrors
are now on borrowed time.

This email is a request for sponsored VMs to allow the DevOps team to
continue maintaining the geomirror infrastructure.

Below are the requirements for a sponsored server:
- Full root access for DevOps, managed via Ansible and preferable the VM
should run Arch Linux
- Compliance with the requirements for a T1 mirror as described in the
Arch Linux wiki [2]
- Really prefer a 1G/s upload _and_ download bandwidth
- Expected traffic details are documented in a related GitLab issue [3]

We greatly appreciate any volunteers willing to support this effort and
look forward to hearing from you.

[0]: https://archlinux.org/mirrors/geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/
[1]: https://deploy.equinix.com/blog/sunsetting-equinix-metal/
[2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors
[3]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/664

Thank you,
Arch Linux DevOps team

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Leonidas Spyropoulos
Developer & DevOps
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