A lot of great energy has been put into this thread, so I wanted to come back in... Fastly got back to me this afternoon.
They're a CDN and do distribution for twitter, pinterest, github, yelp, kickstarter, debian, etc. They're game to back our website (everything content-wise, downloads come with that).
I've put a few Qs their way and if things look as good as they seem, I don't think we need to put much more energy into this topic for 0.91.
Cheers, Josh On Dec 1, 2014 9:22 PM, "John Cliff" <john.cliff@...400...> wrote:
On 2 Dec 2014 04:39, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:42:15AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
Devs,
Launchpad have allowed my request for a downlaods size exception to expire. (which I'm not happy about) But this does leave us with an important todo item, we must find a new home for our downloads before the 0.91 release because of the very unsafe nature that sourceforge has become.
We do know these things:
- Launchpad can only host our windows and source packages, Max OSX is
too large.
- Our website would not cope with our download traffic.
- We have no mirrors, official or otherwise.
If you have any ideas how we can solve this problem, please discuss here.
Kees mentioned Google's code hosting:
https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted#Sharing_Releases
We could establish a repo for our project, using it only for the download service, not git hosting or anything else. Then add that to the mirrors list... Google probably wouldn't even notice our traffic spike. ;-)
They stopped doing direct downloads a while back. The downloads bit of the FAQ recommends you use google drive now, but I couldn't find any reference to bandwidth limits. (We could email them and ask)
https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DownloadsFAQ
github also has an analogous service, based around git tags. You can create a release associated with a git tag (which we could synthesize), and then attach binaries through their web interface. For instance see:
https://github.com/Samsung/caskbench/releases/tag/v0.4.5
Bryce
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