Maintenance of openwrt.org and CDN for downloads

[Paul Spooren]

Hi all,

As announced I switched the DNS for downloads.openwrt.org <http://downloads.openwrt.org/> to use fastly instead of our primary distribution server (mirror-02).

From what I can tell the migration worked rather swift and I’m seeing quite some traffic using the CDN. Cached content is delivered at line speed on my end, hope people around the world make the same experience.

There might be minor hiccups with the mirrors[1] until they switch to rsync.openwrt.org <http://rsync.openwrt.org/> but since no release is in sight I didn’t count that as a stopper.

Next will be a new “origin” server which replaces both mirror-01 (old) and mirror-02 (costly). If anyone is aware of a good bare metal host (or managed rsync host) which is open source friendly and ideally does sponsoring, please reach out to me directly (i.e. not on the list). Without the CDN the server should be able to serve 1PB/a, so ideally nothing that is limited to 1-2 TB per month. Thanks for ideas!

Please enjoy the new download speeds including HTTP/3.

Sunshine,
Paul

[1]: https://openwrt.org/downloads#mirrors


> On Dec 13, 2023, at 17:10, Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I plan to upgrade our wiki (openwrt.org <http://openwrt.org/>) next Sunday, 17th of December. I’m expecting just a short downtime since a successful upgrade already happened on a staging instance. In case you urgently need to lookup information, please use the staging instance during the maintenance[1].
> 
> On Tuesday, 19th of December I’m planing a DNS switch to use our sponsored CDN for our downloads, which affects both firmware and package downloads. I’m not expecting any downtime since the CDN already works for a staging domain[2]. If things break, please use on of the many mirrors[3] in the meantime.
> 
> Thanks again to fastly.com for their CDN sponsoring, which is already extensively used as a fallback for our external sources hosting[4].
> 
> Sunshine,
> Paul
> 
> [1]: https://wiki.staging.openwrt.org/
> [2]: https://downloads.cdn.openwrt.org/
> [3]: https://openwrt.org/downloads?s%5B%5D=mirror#mirrors
> [4]: https://sources.cdn.openwrt.org/
>