Summary: Boost downloads will be hosted at a new location, with the URL format https://archives.boost.io/release/1.85.0/source/boost_1_85_0.tar.gz Details: During the last couple of years the Boost downloads have been hosted on JFrog Artifactory, and before that on Bintray. JFrog has been very generous in providing the bandwidth and hosting services. Recently, bandwidth increased into the 150TB/month range. JFrog requested the download be moved behind a CDN, or migrated to another service entirely. At the C++ Alliance, we have set up load balanced AWS EC2 instances, and configured a Fastly CDN, on the domain archives.boost.io. Fastly offered a discounted bulk rate based on the large amount of traffic. The boost.org website now shows links to the new CDN. If you are using any automated scripts that point to jfrog.io, the existing JFrog links will continue to function until December 2024. - Sam Darwin
On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 6:53 AM Sam Darwin via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Boost downloads will be hosted at a new location, with the URL format https://archives.boost.io/release/1.85.0/source/boost_1_85_0.tar.gz
Ugh... shouldn't this be boost.org ? Thanks
Ugh... shouldn't this be boost.org ?
That's not a typo. The URL is archives.boost.io. In the past, the download link has been on many other domains: sourceforge, bintray, jfrog, and so on. There is no expectation the download is hosted on the website itself. Currently, 50TB/month of traffic are already going to archives.boost.io and would "break" (so to speak) if that were switched.
On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 10:46 AM Sam Darwin via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Ugh... shouldn't this be boost.org ?
That's not a typo. The URL is archives.boost.io. In the past, the download link has been on many other domains: sourceforge, bintray, jfrog, and so on. There is no expectation the download is hosted on the website itself. Currently, 50TB/month of traffic are already going to archives.boost.io and would "break" (so to speak) if that were switched.
I agree that boost.org would be better. Where is the 50TB/month of traffic coming from? We could make archive.boost.org point to the same server, no? Having two domains for boost is just confusing IMO.
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 6:55 PM David Sankel wrote:
On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 10:46 AM Sam Darwin wrote:
That's not a typo. The URL is archives.boost.io. In the past, the download link has been on many other domains: sourceforge, bintray, jfrog, and so on. There is no expectation the download is hosted on the website itself. Currently, 50TB/month of traffic are already going to archives.boost.io and would "break" (so to speak) if that were switched.
I agree that boost.org would be better. Where is the 50TB/month of traffic coming from? We could make archive.boost.org point to the same server, no?
Having two domains for boost is just confusing IMO.
If I understand correctly, Fastly supports us using our own domain for these URLs. I'm not worried about the breakage because all that traffic is already new, since the URLs switched from the JFrog one to the current one. Now that we can have boost.org URLs for this, it would be nice. Sam, let's discuss offline. If it needs access I can bring it up at the meeting next Wednesday. Glen
all that traffic is already new,
the URL has been in place for six months, going back to the JFrog outage in December. Many developers have switched their download scripts, including the React Native team, and others. Actually, additional domain names on the same servers should be possible.
Sam, let's discuss offline. If it needs access I can bring it up at the meeting next Wednesday.
OK.
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