Has a pay-to-play US mirror been considered?
I'm asking this because recently my upgrade/install experience has sucked on several US mirrors. I'd be completely happy paying a subscription fee to have access to a quickly syncing, maintained, reasonable-speed mirror. Anyone else? Is this just a stupid idea?
Borosai wrote:
The vt.edu mirror is also working great. The problem is that in the /etc/pacman.d/<repo> files, it is listed as ftp://...
Once I changed it to http://, it has been flying. What I worry about is the load that will be placed on the few that work well, since everyone will switch over.
http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/
I'm using vt and am happy with it for now - ibiblio was fine, too until it took a dump. Same with gatech. This thread was more intended to see if there was any interest in maintaining or contributing to such a mirror, though. I'm not trying to bitch about the current state of the mirrors at all - things happen, and I certainly respect the right of the devs to have done what they did with ftp.archlinux. The state of the mirrors did get me thinking, and I'm pretty sure similar plans have been tried with other distros with fairly good success. There may not be the userbase or interest here though.
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