Tier 1 mirror application - CICKU

[Christopher M]

> Hi,
>
> I tried to reply to your earlier email but it failed with: 550 5.1.1 <i at cicku.me>: user does not exist
>
> Resending below:
>
> Thanks for the proposal.  I couldn't figure out if you offer a public
> rsync service?  This is necessary since tier-1 mirrors need to offer
> downstream synchronisation for tier-2 mirrors.
>
> Baptiste
>
> On 09-01-26, Christopher Meng wrote:
> > Hello (re-sending because I might have some email issues),
> >
> > I would like to apply for Tier 1, currently my mirror (mirrors.cicku.me) is already listed for your download. As a global load balancer, I am very happy to serve traffic to all types of visitors.
> >
> > Brief:
> >
> > - Online since 2012, expanded in 2022. 9 servers in use, covering all continents
> > - Officially announced to various projects
> > - CDN backbone, premium transit bandwidth guaranteed
> > - Available as regional hostnames (i.e. us.mirrors.cicku.me is served from USA, de.mirrors.cicku.me is served from Germany)
> > - 1.2PB available disk space in total
> > - IPv6 ready since day 1
> > - rsync, http, https access are all available (HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3). Also available through Tor.
> > - 0 downtime failover
> >
> > Happy to discuss further.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> >
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Hi,

Sorry for the silence here. I am still having issues with Apple iCloud
which accidentally cut my email service and probably missed a lot of
emails from other places, glad we have a mailing list so I can view
the history. Just switched to Google earlier and now send out the
reply.

I already have rsync available at (replace "us" with other country
codes like "sg" or "de" for other load balancers):

rsync://us.rsync.mirrors.cicku.me (30Mb/s speed limit LB, public access)
rsync://us.dyi.ng (unmetered LB, behind firewall, mostly used by
myself and a few universities)

Depending on your location, the first rsync daemon may respond from a
different bare metal. However, the unmetered ones always host openwrt,
and I have 4 servers holding it. 1 in France, 1 in US, 1 in CA and 1
in Singapore.

I am ok to open the access of the unmetered one to any tier 2 mirror
admins (just need to provide the IPs to me) as long as they do not
consume too much bandwidth for the pull, because I still have to serve
other projects and the servers hosting large folders (openwrt,
mariadb, fedora, suse) generally handle more traffic than the rest,
and they are the core of the entire setup.

Questions are welcome.

--
Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng