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 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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