Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C...
by citrin_ru on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:11AM
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> Optimally you'd want a distributed CDN, but that doesn't really sound feasible without the cloud
CDN is a good choice when you ether need to sever small volume (i. e. not 500Tb) with low latency, e. g. to reduce web page load time by hosting static assets (js/css/img) close to the customer or when you have really huge traffic (e. g. Netflix, but they decided public cloud is not cost effective for CDN and built their own).
For NixOS mirrors latency is not important, traffic is not huge (withing capacity of a single commodity server) and just two mirrors - in US and EU would be close enough to majority of users.
CDN is a good choice when you ether need to sever small volume (i. e. not 500Tb) with low latency, e. g. to reduce web page load time by hosting static assets (js/css/img) close to the customer or when you have really huge traffic (e. g. Netflix, but they decided public cloud is not cost effective for CDN and built their own).
For NixOS mirrors latency is not important, traffic is not huge (withing capacity of a single commodity server) and just two mirrors - in US and EU would be close enough to majority of users.