Please update your “Community Sources” package …
Posted January 21st, 2008 at 11:59 pm by Ste
Filed in: Misc, Nullriver, Site News
The latest “Community Sources” package changes the location of my repository’s XML file. Instead of downloading it directly from my site, it will download it from a world-wide caching system. Not only will this eliminate nearly all the traffic to my main server, but it should update faster, for you, as you will get it from the cache closest to you.
Right now, the XML file will age out of the cache after 12 hours. This means that if I add/update a package, you might not see it for as long as 12 hours, no matter how many times you might manually refresh. Once I’m satisfied that this is working ok, I will tweak the settings so that it ages out of the cache much quicker - probably down to 1 hour instead of 12.
Thanks again, to Nullriver, for helping me test this and for updating the “Community Sources” package for me! My thanks to Nate True for suggesting the caching system to me, too!
If this goes well, I will investigate caching the zip files, too.
UPDATE: I have changed the timeout from 12 hours to 30 minutes. So, if I add or update a package you should see it in 30 minutes or less now.
-ste
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January 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Hah! That’s a forehead-slapping obvious idea! Too bad no one (including me) seemed to think of it until now.. :-P Hope it works out for you.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:31 pm
This Thing Does NOT work in a lot of countries, i run my own repo of all sources, and i get this a lot, so please just maybe add a diff one if the other one doesn’t work,
P.S. It takes about 3 minutes to refresh that source on a t3 connection.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
What “Thing” doesn’t work? What Source takes 3 minutes to refresh? You have given no specifics here whatsoever.
-ste
January 29th, 2008 at 7:45 am
sorry, what i meant was that this new link for this repo takes a really long time in a lot of countries
January 29th, 2008 at 8:46 am
My apologies. The free caching system that I am using (http://coralcdn.org) isn’t perfect. Unfortunately, I have to use it, or I will have to shut down my repository.
-ste