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Running a CDN for FOSS | mirror.albony.in

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Session Description

A practical look at running the Albony Mirror Network (mirror.albony.in) which has 8 nodes spread across India and serves Petabytes worth of traffic each year, covering software repository synchronization, distributed infrastructure, DNS-based load balancing, monitoring, and bandwidth management. Learn about the challenges and lessons of keeping FOSS accessible through a reliable mirror network in India.

Key Takeaways
  1. Understand how FOSS mirrors and CDNs work.
  2. Learn repository synchronization and bandwidth management.
  3. Explore DNS-based load balancing and distributed infrastructure.
  4. Understand monitoring, reliability, and uptime management.
  5. Gain practical insights into running a public FOSS mirror network in India.

References

https://mirror.albony.in/

Session Categories

Story of a FOSS project - from inception to growth
Technology architecture
Talk License: CC-BY-SA 4.0

Speakers

Shrirang Kahale
Shrirang Kahale Administrator, Albony Networks

Shrirang Kahale is a student and open-source infrastructure enthusiast who maintains the Albony Mirror Network, providing access to FOSS repositories and software across India. His interests include Linux infrastructure, networking, content delivery, and building reliable infrastructure for the open-source ecosystem.

Reviews

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Reviewer #1 Rejected