[Distutils] [Infrastructure] Good news everyone, PyPI is behind a CDN

[Jim Fulton]

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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> On May 26, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <noah at coderanger.net> wrote:
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> </farnsworth>
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> but seriously, at long last today it was my honor to throw the DNS switch to
> move PyPI to the Fastly caching CDN. I would like to thank Donald Stufft for
> doing much of the heavy lifting on the PyPI side, and to Fastly for
> graciously offering to host us. What does this mean for everyone? Well the
> biggest change is PyPI should get a whole lot faster. There are two major
> downsides however. There will now be a delay of several minutes in some
> cases between updating a package and having it be installable, and download
> counts will now be even more incorrect than they were before. The PyPI
> admins are discussing what to do about download counts long-term, but for
> now we all feel that the performance and availability benefits outweigh the
> loss. If anyone has any questions, or hears anything about issues with PyPI
> please don't hesitate to contact me.

This is great news! Is this just the downloads? Or does it include
the simple index too?

Jim

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