<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 26, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Jim Fulton <<a href="mailto:jim@zope.com">jim@zope.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Donald Stufft <<a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io">donald@stufft.io</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>On May 26, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <<a href="mailto:noah@coderanger.net">noah@coderanger.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></farnsworth><br><br>but seriously, at long last today it was my honor to throw the DNS switch to<br>move PyPI to the Fastly caching CDN. I would like to thank Donald Stufft for<br>doing much of the heavy lifting on the PyPI side, and to Fastly for<br>graciously offering to host us. What does this mean for everyone? Well the<br>biggest change is PyPI should get a whole lot faster. There are two major<br>downsides however. There will now be a delay of several minutes in some<br>cases between updating a package and having it be installable, and download<br>counts will now be even more incorrect than they were before. The PyPI<br>admins are discussing what to do about download counts long-term, but for<br>now we all feel that the performance and availability benefits outweigh the<br>loss. If anyone has any questions, or hears anything about issues with PyPI<br>please don't hesitate to contact me.<br></blockquote><br>This is great news! Is this just the downloads? Or does it include<br>the simple index too?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Default Policy is Not to Cache (To handle logged in or dynamic pages since PyPI doesn't have the proper Vary headers).</div><div><br></div><div>/simple/.* Has a policy for it to cache for 10minutes (If I recall correctly)</div><div><br></div><div>/packages/.* Has a policy for it to cache for 1 hour (If I recall correctly)</div><div><br></div><div>So they are both cached, but because we aren't invalidating the cache yet the simple index has a low timeout so there is only a short wait required for a new upload to be available.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Jim<br><br>-- <br>Jim Fulton<br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton">http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton</a><br></blockquote></div><br><div>
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