Re: Retiring PHP's Mirror Program

Its sad to see that mirror program is being discontinued. =20

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 <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> 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=E2=80=94PHP is Open Source, and this =
is simply
> how these things can go.
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> 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!).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> cheers,
> Derick
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> .. _mirrors: http://php.net/mirrors.php
> .. _tarballs: http://uk3.php.net/downloads.php
> .. _Myra: https://myracloud.com/en/
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