Open dogancelik opened 8 years ago
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+1 I'm using this one for the time being: https://web.archive.org/web/20150905194312/https://packagecontrol.io/channel_v3.json
Times out: https://packagecontrol.io/channel_v3.json
Fails instantly: https://backup.packagecontrol.io/channel_v3.json https://cdn.packagecontrol.io/channel_v3.json
"works" https://web.archive.org/web/20150905194312/https://packagecontrol.io/channel_v3.json
Thanks thotypous
I would recommend against using 3-month-old package metadata.
BTW, this would be a great time to consider a $2.50 a month donation to PC. If I could get a good number of users doing so, I could set up a more fault tolerant architecture.
I would recommend against using 3-month-old package metadata.
Of course I enabled it as only during the time Linode was offline, for an emergency plugin install ;)
What about adding a subdomain cached by CloudFlare pointing to the same Linode box which hosts the main domain? Should be fairly easy to setup and provide some level of fallback for free.
PS. In case you’re wondering how to donate to @wbond for a more robust architecture, here’s the link to the page on the web site:
https://packagecontrol.io/say_thanks
(Might be an idea to make that more prevalent and to add it to the readme on the repo also. No shame in asking.) :)
I have created a mirror in my server. but only http
(@wbond removed URL since it was insecure and the channel is back up)
For users coming here after the recent outage, please see #1057 for more information.
Website is down, so we can't reach https://packagecontrol.io/channel_v3.json The default
cache_length
is 300 seconds, so it gets emptied quickly. A fallback URL for JSON files would be nice or a CDN (CloudFlare?) that only serves JSON data under different URLs, something like: