Part of the founding thesis of #MicroMirror was that SSDs have gotten cheap and large enough that it's viable to cheaply deploy useful #Linux download mirrors.
That assertion is, incredibly, no longer true... so we're holding off on deploying any additional sites for now.
Boxing up the first "HoneyBee" model of #MicroMirror appliance for a network to plug in for us.
The 2TB M.2 drives have started being a little tight for what we want to host on the MicroMirrors, so we've upgraded to the HP T740 since it supports NVMe drives and we can ship it with a 4TB SSD for a reasonable cost.
HP T740
8GB RAM
4TB NVMe Samsung 990 EVO
16GB recovery ROM
2x10G CX312 NIC
Since this is a new appliance model, I also upgraded the NIC to the ConnectX-312, which has two SFP+ ports. This was because several hosts have been *requesting* the ability to plug us into a 2x10G port channel so they can have maintenance windows on MLAG switches without impacting us. We originally planned on these boxes only being 1G but ISPs keep asking us to go faster so it's *easier* for them to plug it into their networks.
Due to some database issues I don't have any beautiful graphs of the #Fedora 42 release traffic on #MicroMirror, but needless to say, the mirrors just kind of handled it.
My favorite datapoint was the ask4.mm.fcix.net mirror casually doing 2Gbps on its 10G pot all afternoon serving the majority of the UK Fedora users.
SIGHS
I could be wrong, but it's looking very much like uvermont.mm.fcix.net is going to stay offline, and we'll be working to remove it from stuff. Still a chance for this to reverse but it's pretty unlikely.
Specific shout out to our contact (you know who you are, I'm only holding your name back so you don't get inundated by stuff) at UVM for hosting us, they've been utterly amazing and fantastic to work with.
Wish the situation could be otherwise, but we are where we are at it seems. Bring the box home, give it a good cleaning and see if we can find a new home for it.
New POP on the #MicroMirror map! Thanks to Solid Rock Networks / GraniteIX we have a new #FOSS download mirror hosted near Salt Lake City, Utah!
The node is an HP T620plus with a 2TB SSD and 10G NIC. We continue to make #linux downloads faster.
Doing a quick shout out: does anyone know folks on the OpenSuse infra team? Something is going weird and they've pushed 5TB of aarch64 tumbleweed appliances of late, like there's builds not getting culled somewhere.
Trying to flag this up so that gets sorted and we stop getting that data pushed at us (and unfortunately eating up all our spare disk).
Kenneth Finnegan
Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺
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