From kiwi0530 at gmail.com Tue Aug 28 21:31:10 2007 From: kiwi0530 at gmail.com (Kiwi) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:31:10 +0800 Subject: [Support-mirrors] New Mirror in Taiwan Message-ID: Hi Dennis and everyone, Because it's very slow when getting gem file with rubyforge from Taiwan, I'm trying to create a mirror site in CSIE Department, Chunghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan . http://files-rubyforge.csie.chu.edu.tw http://gems-rubyforge.csie.chu.edu.tw Please notice that url is slightly different from last one I mail to Dennis. Rsyncd is also ready to go. BTW, is Dennis receiving my password file? I'm a rails programmer, and also appreciate to see ruby & rails growing so fast in Taiwan. Thanks to the community and developers. Please feel free to mail me if any thing goes wrong. Kiwi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/support-mirrors/attachments/20070829/b15ff1f3/attachment.html From tve at rightscale.com Wed Aug 29 21:26:52 2007 From: tve at rightscale.com (Thorsten von Eicken) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:26:52 -0700 Subject: [Support-mirrors] tentative new gems mirror on Amazon's Simple Storage Service Message-ID: <46D61CDC.3090203@rightscale.com> At RightScale we are constantly installing new machines on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and the performance and reliability of ruby mirrors is critical to us. For this reason I've tentatively set-up a new gems (not files) mirror at http://mirror.rightscale.com/ which we use by putting a --source http://mirror.rightscale.com into ~/.gemrc Ok, now to the "tentatively" part. This is not a std mirror due to the peculiarities of Amazon S3. The way I'm mirroring is by listing the gems directory of the gems.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk mirror every night using HTTP and comparing the Last Modified HTTP header of every file (HEAD request) with a timestamp stored in S3. The reason I'm using the UK mirror is that it seems to be the only one to produce a reliable Last Modified HTTP header. The daily update means that if you need to grab the latest gem a few minutes after it has been published, don't use the S3 mirror. Since the mirror set-up is non-std, I would appreciate feedback before making any wider announcements. Thorsten - www.rightscale.com - Amazon EC2 made easy