Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror?

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Hartmut Goebel transcribed 771 bytes:
> Am 03.12.2018 um 17:12 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> > Thus, I’m thinking about using a similar setup, but hosting the mirror
> > on some Big Corp CDN or similar.
> 
> Isn't this a contradiction: Building a free infrastructure relaying on
> servers from some Big Corporation? Let allow the privacy concerns
> raising when delivering data via some Big Corporation.
> 
> If delivering "packages" works via static data without requiring any
> additional service, we could ask universities to host Guix, too. IMHO
> this is a much preferred solution since this is a decentralized publish
> infrastructure already in place for many GNU/Linux distributions.

Regardless of me agreeing with Hartmut here, I suggest https://wasabi.com/
as an S3 compatible storage (, which is not run by Amazon.).