Hello, I just discussed with the local community members regarding the local mirror services and would like to ask why the official Ubuntu OS download page doesn’t offer installation image downloads from the country/regional mirrors of the requesting user by default and only listing the mirrors as an alternative of retrieving such files?
Using the guesstimated user location’s mirror services for downloads should provide the following benefits:
- Lower bandwidth/data cost to the Canonical website
- Faster downloads for users in regions not in the United States or England(where the default download servers are supposed to be, according to the
releases.ubuntu.comdomain name reverse lookup result).
While it may have the following cons, which I believe is rather less problematic:
- Lower download speed when the user’s location is wrongly guessed (one can always seek alternative mirrors to download).
- Possibility that the mirror service redirected to is unavailable, which can be mitigated by coordination of mirror admins and service monitoring.
Can anyone managing the download service give the reasoning behind the current decision?
Thanks in advance!
林博仁(Buo-ren, Lin)