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Is anyone from CloudFlare or Canonical reading? Please parter to make mirrors for Launchpad PPAs. They're so painfully slow around the globe and there is tons

by SXX 6y ago

Is anyone from CloudFlare or Canonical reading? Please parter to make mirrors for Launchpad PPAs. They're so painfully slow around the globe and there is tons of open source projects that depend on PPAs...

adonese 6y ago
Second this. Cloudflare package repo gets me so excited about it and i wish they extend to ubuntu too.
Ayesh 6y ago
I recently moved to Vietnam, and I sometimes get awfully slow connection speeds to the mirrors nearby my city, to a point that switching to US mirrors is faster. (ftp.[kr|sg].debian.org)
- SXX 6y ago
  I also live in Vietnam for 3-6 months every year so it's part of the reason I posted it. PPA is real pain since as far as I understand they're not mirrored at all or at least they haven't been before. In my experience mirrors in Japan work best in Vietnam for whatever reason.
- stingraycharles 6y ago
  How is Docker hub from Vietnam nowadays? I lived in Cambodia from 2014-2016, and it was nearly impossible to pull Docker images which have large single layers. Would be great to have a Cloudflare solution for this.
  - momothereal 6y ago
    Off-topic. I visited Cambodia for 3 weeks in 2017. It's a beautiful country and I enjoyed every minute. My mind has pondered over living there long-term -- it seems so affordable. How was your experience living there for a while, especially as a developer?
    - Ayesh 6y ago
      I surely miss the developer/tech atmosphere that was there in Berlin, Frankfurt, etc. The life is quite simple, and the coffee culture is based around chatting with friends for hours, instead of sitting in a cafe and getting work done on a MacBook Pro or a Thinkpad X1 carbon. If you live like a local, which is not to say any lower living standards, it can be pretty cheap. At around 2x the living cost of a local, one can live comfortably here. I pay around third the rent which was once near Berlin, and now spend about half on food if I eat out. Internet is cheap but unreliable. I sometimes have to use my 4G mobile hotspot (1GB/day at ~€4 a month). I was born and raised in an Asian country, so there isn't much of a culture difference to speak of. However, Vietnamese is pretty difficult to learn, and even after six months here, I still cannot get the tones right and speak more than 50 words. Indonesia in that regard is amazing. If you are thinking to move to south East Asia, I can highly recommend Indonesia. They have countless mountains to climb, a good hiking/riding groups to easily join, similar living cost to Vietnam, and a much easier language to learn. Bahasa Indonesia is understood pretty much everywhere, and quite easy to learn. Internet is censored in both countries to some extent (Reddit doesn't work in Indonesia with a DNS blackhole that you can easily bypass), and has worse Internet in Indonesia in general though. There are many startups based in Indonesia (such as Gojek, Traveloka, Tiket.com), some of which are owned by SoftBank a few layers up. I feel it's more easier to I best/startup in Indonesia too.
      - SXX 6y ago
        Where exactly in Indonesia have you lived? Bali is like two times more expensive compared to Vietnam. Also internet connection was generally much worse for me in Indonesia due to their island nature I guess. In Vietnam it's super easy to setup two 50-100Mbps FTTB lines for something like $80 / month (just in case one of ISP go down).
        Ayesh 6y ago
        Yogyakarta, Malang, and Bandung (all on Java).
    - ed25519FUUU 6y ago
  - Ayesh 6y ago
    Internet I general seems to be pretty bad here in Hanoi. I do not really work with bigger images (~100mb alpine images tops), and it takes ~5-10 minutes in evenings which appears to be the peak time on my current VNPT 40mbps line.

by SXX 6y ago

adonese 6y ago

Second this. Cloudflare package repo gets me so excited about it and i wish they extend to ubuntu too.

Ayesh 6y ago

I recently moved to Vietnam, and I sometimes get awfully slow connection speeds to the mirrors nearby my city, to a point that switching to US mirrors is faster. (ftp.[kr|sg].debian.org)

SXX 6y ago
I also live in Vietnam for 3-6 months every year so it's part of the reason I posted it. PPA is real pain since as far as I understand they're not mirrored at all or at least they haven't been before. In my experience mirrors in Japan work best in Vietnam for whatever reason.
stingraycharles 6y ago
How is Docker hub from Vietnam nowadays? I lived in Cambodia from 2014-2016, and it was nearly impossible to pull Docker images which have large single layers. Would be great to have a Cloudflare solution for this.
- momothereal 6y ago
  Off-topic. I visited Cambodia for 3 weeks in 2017. It's a beautiful country and I enjoyed every minute. My mind has pondered over living there long-term -- it seems so affordable. How was your experience living there for a while, especially as a developer?
  - Ayesh 6y ago
    I surely miss the developer/tech atmosphere that was there in Berlin, Frankfurt, etc. The life is quite simple, and the coffee culture is based around chatting with friends for hours, instead of sitting in a cafe and getting work done on a MacBook Pro or a Thinkpad X1 carbon. If you live like a local, which is not to say any lower living standards, it can be pretty cheap. At around 2x the living cost of a local, one can live comfortably here. I pay around third the rent which was once near Berlin, and now spend about half on food if I eat out. Internet is cheap but unreliable. I sometimes have to use my 4G mobile hotspot (1GB/day at ~€4 a month). I was born and raised in an Asian country, so there isn't much of a culture difference to speak of. However, Vietnamese is pretty difficult to learn, and even after six months here, I still cannot get the tones right and speak more than 50 words. Indonesia in that regard is amazing. If you are thinking to move to south East Asia, I can highly recommend Indonesia. They have countless mountains to climb, a good hiking/riding groups to easily join, similar living cost to Vietnam, and a much easier language to learn. Bahasa Indonesia is understood pretty much everywhere, and quite easy to learn. Internet is censored in both countries to some extent (Reddit doesn't work in Indonesia with a DNS blackhole that you can easily bypass), and has worse Internet in Indonesia in general though. There are many startups based in Indonesia (such as Gojek, Traveloka, Tiket.com), some of which are owned by SoftBank a few layers up. I feel it's more easier to I best/startup in Indonesia too.
    - SXX 6y ago
      Where exactly in Indonesia have you lived? Bali is like two times more expensive compared to Vietnam. Also internet connection was generally much worse for me in Indonesia due to their island nature I guess. In Vietnam it's super easy to setup two 50-100Mbps FTTB lines for something like $80 / month (just in case one of ISP go down).
      - Ayesh 6y ago
        Yogyakarta, Malang, and Bandung (all on Java).
  - ed25519FUUU 6y ago
- Ayesh 6y ago
  Internet I general seems to be pretty bad here in Hanoi. I do not really work with bigger images (~100mb alpine images tops), and it takes ~5-10 minutes in evenings which appears to be the peak time on my current VNPT 40mbps line.