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Dear developers,

We are hereby announcing that udd-mirror.debian.net, after 7 years of
being hosted by XVM at MIT (http://xvm.mit.edu/), now moved to fosshost (https://fosshost.org/).

We wish to thank MIT for hosting this service for so long, as well as
thank fosshost in advance for the many years to come!

You can read a bit of history regarding udd-mirror on Asheesh's
blogpost: https://announce.asheesh.org/2020/11/the-ultimate-debian-database-and-why-i-co-host-a-public-mirror-of-it/

With this occasion, we are also formally deprecating the old address public-udd-mirror.xvm.mit.edu in favour of the "new"
udd-mirror.debian.net that has been available for more than three years.
Please consider updating your scripts that connect to udd-mirror to use
the new address, as the old one will be phased out in the future (no
sooner than one more year at least).


In this move, we also changed the deployment method, storing the whole
database in docker. Even though we don't foresee any problem for the
users, please do report any unexpected errors you might see.
Feel free to use the GitHub project to open tickets or send pull
requests: https://github.com/paulproteus/public-udd-mirror

On the other hand, this new host is much more performant than the old
one, and as such you should see a huge speed improvement when you run
your queries :)


Hoping to still be of service,
Asheesh Laroia
Mattia Rizzolo

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On 2020/11/28 18:32, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:

On the other hand, this new host is much more performant than the old
one, and as such you should see a huge speed improvement when you run
your queries :)

Fantastic! Do you know in which region they're hosting this mirror? I
was wondering before whether it would make sense hosting yet another
udd-mirror or whether the one is enough?

Anyway, nice! I follow fosshost on twitter and like their work.

-Jonathan

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On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 10:06:04PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote:

Fantastic! Do you know in which region they're hosting this mirror?

I'm not extremely sure (since Asheesh was the one handling the matter
with the hosters), but I believe we are in "node 12" which according to https://fosshost.org/about is in North Dallas, US. Looking up the IP
also says it's in that place.

I
was wondering before whether it would make sense hosting yet another udd-mirror or whether the one is enough?

all these years we made do with a much smaller VM and nobody came to us
to complain about speed or whatnot, and this one is much better specced
than the past one, so I don't believe redundancy is needed.

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regards,
Mattia Rizzolo

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More about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'`
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