Re: Retiring PHP's Mirror Program

I think it is a smart move and the question is not „why” but „why so late”. There are more pros than cons over it. But please let us still mirror php.net. I remember starting the mirror not because of fame of being national mirror but... because php.net was down for a day and our php programers had a problem :) Any way, please keep in mind that you can still count on us in terms of infrastructure (vps/band/etc). Pozdrawiam Oskar Szafraniec pl.php.net > Wiadomość napisana przez Bhavin Chandarana - IndiaLinks <webmaster@indialinks.com> w > dniu 27.02.2019, o godz. 18:30: > > Its sad to see that mirror program is being discontinued. > > It has been our honour to be part of PHP network and community. > > Technology has indeed advanced. Every country has better internet infrastructure and bandwidth. > CDN of course, does the magic :) > > I will be glad to provide any assistance anytime, if required. > > Best wishes... > > Bhavin Chandarana > IndiaLinks Web Hosting Pvt Ltd > > >> On 27-Feb-2019, at 9:57 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> The PHP.net website has in the last 20 years made use of an extensive >> network of mirrors_ to make the PHP documentation available, and >> distribute source tarballs_. These mirrors have been maintained by >> members and companies in the PHP eco-system for many valuable years. >> However, the administration of the mirror system is often haphazard, >> with few contributors helping out—PHP is Open Source, and this is simply >> how these things can go. >> >> Maintaining the mirrors is now no longer sustainable, and also hinders >> the take up of moving the PHP.net website fully to HTTPS. Because the >> PHP.net team has no access to the mirror servers, we also can't make >> sure the mirrors are up-to-date, and some mirrors are still running PHP >> 5.3 (actually, about 25% still run PHP 5.3!). >> >> It is likely no longer necessary to have a mirror system in place, as >> unlike 20 years ago, it is not nearly has hard as setting up a >> distributed cache system. As a matter of fact, some of the PHP.net web >> site, through http://www.php.net/, already sits behind a >> Content >> Delivery Network (CDN) from Myra_, which is sponsored by long time PHP >> contributor Sascha Schumann. >> >> With these preliminaries out of the way, I would therefore like to >> announce the discontinuation of PHP.net's mirroring program. Instead of >> having mirrors, we are moving all of PHP.net to HTTPS (and get rid of >> https://secure.php.net), and move them behind Myra's >> CDN, with the same >> local content delivery opportunities, but at significantly less >> administration requirements. >> >> In the next week or so, I will e-mail out a plan on which steps are >> necessary for this move. I'd be happy to hear any comments on when the >> plan comes out. >> >> To end this email, I would very much like to thank all the mirror >> maintainers for their dedication, time, and bandwidth over all these >> years. Thanks! >> >> cheers, >> Derick >> >> .. _mirrors: http://php.net/mirrors.php >> .. _tarballs: http://uk3.php.net/downloads.php >> .. _Myra: https://myracloud.com/en/ >> >> -- >> https://derickrethans.nl | >> https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io >> Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: >> https://xdebug.org/donate.php, >> or become my Patron: https://www.patreon.com/derickr >> twitter: @derickr and @xdebug >