Apache Software Foundation organization reported About plans to refuse to use the mirror system, Supported by various organizations and volunteers. Apache projects are planned to be implemented to implement the content delivery system (CDN, Content Delivery Network), which will make rid of problems such as mirrors and delay due to the distribution of contents by mirrors.
It is noted that in modern realities, the use of mirrors does not justify itself – the volume of the data given through the mirrors increased from 10 to 180 GB, the content delivery technology went forward, and the cost of traffic decreased. What kind of CDN network will be used not reported, it is mentioned only that the choice will be made in favor of a network with professional support and service level that satisfies Apache Software Foundation needs.
It is noteworthy that under the auspices of Apache already develops its own platform for creating geographically distributed CDN networks Apache Traffic Control , which is used in delivery networks Content of companies Cisco and Comcast. A few days ago came out Release Apache Traffic Control 6.0, which added support for generation and update certificates using the ACME protocol, implemented the ability to install locks (CDN Locks) added support for update queues and added backend to extract keys from PostgreSQL.