[Server-devel] http://download.iiab.io now 5X faster

Adam Holt holt at laptop.org
Thu May 4 13:31:04 EDT 2017


I've moved http://download.iiab.io 's DNS & Apache settings to
http://download.unleashkids.org/iiab for now.  Mirroring is underway, and
should complete within about an hour.  This has 4 advantages:

   1. downloads ~5X faster (typical IIAB install image is downloaded within
   10min rather than an hour)
   2. downloads via Chrome and Firefox once again work (instead of getting
   cut off by Bluehost.com's buggy hosting service)
   3. README.html appears automatically in-browser, within each "ftp site"
   folder
   4. URL's like http://download.iiab.io/6.2/x86/debian-load.txt work with
   wget, not just Firefox etc.

Caveat: download.unleashkids.org (= download.iiab.io as of now) is limited
to 200GB of disk, so I need to work with George next week to clear out a
few dozen GB of stuff we're no longer using from 2013-2015 especially.
http://download.iiab.io/content mirroring from
http://xsce.org/downloads/content/ is also underway.  All older xsce.org
stuff remains visible at http://dl.iiab.io too (when Bluehost's erratic
downloading works anyway!)

PS later this spring Wikimedia Fdtn or Bluehost will hopefully offer us an
even far more scalable solution~

PPS a few of the many Bluehost.com errors below, if it helps Tim resolve
what sneaky traffic-shaping / bugginess is going on behind the scenes:

[holt at unleashkids rpi]$ sudo wget
http://xsce.org/downloads/6.2/rpi/iiab-6.2-170420-raspbian-lite-sampler-en-gf3078a1.img.zip
--2017-05-04 11:36:41--
http://xsce.org/downloads/6.2/rpi/iiab-6.2-170420-raspbian-lite-sampler-en-gf3078a1.img.zip
Resolving xsce.org... 66.147.244.100
Connecting to xsce.org|66.147.244.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4024205268 (3.7G) [application/zip]
Saving to: “iiab-6.2-170420-raspbian-lite-sampler-en-gf3078a1.img.zip”

59% [=====================>               ] 2,395,837,403  618K/s   in 17m
19s

2017-05-04 11:54:00 (2.20 MB/s) - Connection closed at byte 2395837403.
Retrying.

--2017-05-04 11:54:01--  (try: 2)
http://xsce.org/downloads/6.2/rpi/iiab-6.2-170420-raspbian-lite-sampler-en-gf3078a1.img.zip
Connecting to xsce.org|66.147.244.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 4024205268 (3.7G), 1628367865 (1.5G) remaining [application/zip]
Saving to: “iiab-6.2-170420-raspbian-lite-sampler-en-gf3078a1.img.zip”

71% [++++++++++++++++++++++===>           ] 2,882,210,973  511K/s   in 3m
28s

2017-05-04 11:57:30 (2.23 MB/s) - Connection closed at byte 2882210973.
Retrying.

--2017-05-04 11:57:32--  (try: 3)
http://xsce.org/downloads/6.2/rpi/iiab-6.2-170420-raspbian-lite-sampler-en-gf3078a1.img.zip
Connecting to xsce.org|66.147.244.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 4024205268 (3.7G), 1141994295 (1.1G) remaining [application/zip]
Saving to: “iiab-6.2-170420-raspbian-lite-sampler-en-gf3078a1.img.zip”

[...]



[holt at unleashkids x86]$ sudo wget http://www.xsce.org/downloads/
6.2/x86/iiab-6.2-170417-x86_64-uefi-debian-content-ready-en-gdfcbb53.img
--2017-05-04 11:03:11--  http://www.xsce.org/downloads/
6.2/x86/iiab-6.2-170417-x86_64-uefi-debian-content-ready-en-gdfcbb53.img
Resolving www.xsce.org... 66.147.244.100
Connecting to www.xsce.org|66.147.244.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3061239808 (2.9G) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “iiab-6.2-170417-x86_64-uefi-debian-content-ready-en-
gdfcbb53.img”

69% [========================>            ] 2,115,692,649 7.00M/s   in 16m
25s

2017-05-04 11:19:37 (2.05 MB/s) - Connection closed at byte 2115692649.
Retrying.

--2017-05-04 11:19:38--  (try: 2)  http://www.xsce.org/downloads/
6.2/x86/iiab-6.2-170417-x86_64-uefi-debian-content-ready-en-gdfcbb53.img
Connecting to www.xsce.org|66.147.244.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 502 Bad Gateway
2017-05-04 11:19:38 ERROR 502: Bad Gateway.
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