[arch-mirrors] Best practices setting up a new mirror

[Easy Lee]

Hi Sven,

Thank you. I'll get started. HTTPS and 1 gbit/s are no problem and I'll provide IPv6 as well.

Cheers

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021, at 5:30 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 at 15:55, Easy Lee via arch-mirrors
> <arch-mirrors at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > First of all thank you for hosting Arch mirrors. I'm planning to contribute by hosting one as well. Any best practices regarding software (web server, rsync) or configuration? Hardware specs?
> >
> > I will follow-up on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors and probably make use of the rsync script (https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/blob/master/roles/syncrepo/files/syncrepo-template.sh).
> >
> > Cheers!
> 
> Hey,
> 
> You should be able to commit around 100G. A full mirror takes around
> 60G of real space right now so you should have some headroom. The
> script you linked is fine and we use it on all our own mirrors. You
> need at least 1G uplink speed as 100M doesn't really cut it anymore.
> You barely need any CPU or memory.
> HTTPS support would be good. We use nginx for hosting the mirror but
> caddy works fine, too.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sven
> 
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