High volume of traffic on download server - move to a 2-tiers rsync setup for mirrors?

[Rich Brown]

Baptiste, all,

I am happy to throw rocks in the pond. :-)

> On Jan 6, 2026, at 09:27, Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> 
> That being said, I agree the current number of mirrors is kind of
> unreasonable for this purpose.
> 
> The idea of the 2-tiers system is precisely to delegate mirror
> distribution to a few trusted people/org that have the knowledge and
> infrastructure for this.

Establishing one or two Tier-2 servers could make sense. That also sub-contracts all the traffic and coordination problems of serving Tier-3 servers to them.

And perhaps we can ask anyone who wants to become a Tier 2 server to tell us how much traffic they are saving us. They should do the same analysis that Baptiste did for our central servers, and fill out these stats (or others):

- rsync downloads from mirrors : 
- HTTP downloads.openwrt.org : 
- HTTP sources.cdn.openwrt.org : 
- rsync downloads from buildbot workers : 
- rsync sources : 

Thanks again.

Rich