Re: Country specific round-robin on mirrors

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 15:04, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:16, Hannes Magnusson > <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all (intentionally not flooding php-mirrors@) >> >> How do you guys feel about tweaking our mirror infrastructure a little >> by making countrycode.php.net a round robin to >> countrycode[1,2,3].php.net? >> >> That would mean that _all_ mirrors would have to update their >> ServerAlias (to listen to countrycode.php.net, and existing >> countrycode.php.net would need to "rename" themselfs to >> countrycode1.php.net). >> This would fix the situation when the countrycode.php.net mirror >> becomes inactive, and therefore breaking for people writing >> countrycode.php.net directly (which surprisingly many people do). >> It would also workaround situations like mentioned in #61146.. > >    I'm okay with that.  I see many other benefits it would give to > both the site visitors and us, as well. > >    This spring will be another overhaul of the mirrors --- getting > PHP versions updated, doing some cleanup, getting contact information > updated and alternates defined, finishing the SQLite normalization, > and finally putting the geo-displaced rsync layer, among other things. >  I'll work in the hostname updates in the process. > >    I'd probably just have the XX2 and XX3 mirrors add XX to their > ServerAlias definitions, though, keeping them also listening on their > existing alternates, and not changing XX mirrors.  We should then add The XX mirrors will need to listen to XX1 too, no? > a redirect rule so that if the hostname is not /^[a-z]{2,}$/, it gets > rewritten to match such.  Thus, XX2 (XX3) automatically force-redirect > to XX, even though all original hosts still exist.  Then, moving > forward, new mirrors will simply add XX as opposed to XX# as their I don't think that is a good idea. If one of the mirrors simply sux, or you disagree with their treatment of cats, you still should have the option of selecting your preferred XXY mirror.. > ServerName definition, and - when a country has its secondary (and > tertiary) mirrors removed - links will eventually break.... but for > the most part, by then, users will be used to just seeing XX.php.net, > and links they copy and paste will be the same, so a relatively small > number of broken links should exist.  Save for what will then be, in > relation to the Internet, some antique links in the archives and such. Most links from search engines are without a xxx prefix as we set our canonical url without it. I think actually browsers are even overwriting addressbar copying with the shorturl (or maybe that was just extensions?). -Hannes