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• James Cloos commented  ·  April 12, 2013 9:41 a.m.  ·  Delete

  For debian, http://ftp-nyc.osuosl.org/debian is *very* near.
  http://rocky-mountain.csail.mit.edu/debian makes a good backup.

  For Amsterdam, Debian’s primary Netherlands mirror is best: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/

• Jose Luis Rivas commented  ·  March 30, 2013 12:53 p.m.  ·  Delete

  A Debian mirror would be fine too. It's as easy as installing apt-cacher-ng and in one server you can have ubuntu, debian and fedora's mirrors.

• Marco commented  ·  March 27, 2013 2:54 a.m.  ·  Delete

  On debian, this is the first thing I do on a new server. This basically finds the closest (and fastest) debian mirror. Make sure you uncomment the security repository, then replace /etc/apt/sources.list with the generated file.

  apt-get -y update
  apt-get -y install netselect-apt
  /usr/bin/netselect-apt -n squeeze -o sources.list

• Alex Bradbury commented  ·  March 19, 2013 3:19 a.m.  ·  Delete

  A Debian mirror would also be great. I assume at some point DigitalOcean will roll out a cloud-init like functionality as used in Ubuntu on EC2. A super fast Ubuntu mirror will help increase speed of deploys.

• Matt Nordhoff commented  ·  March 18, 2013 6:04 p.m.  ·  Delete

  For what it's worth, apt-cacher-ng is a caching proxy designed to be used for apt-based distros, so you only need to store what users request, not gigs of KDE or whatever that nobody needs.

  http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/ or apt-get install apt-cacher-ng.

• Anonymous commented  ·  March 17, 2013 3:46 a.m.  ·  Delete

  How do you do that? Can anyone give a link for instructions?

• Nick Gauthier commented  ·  February 16, 2013 8:40 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I use Columbia University's mirror here:

  http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/archive/

• Alex Gusset commented  ·  February 15, 2013 8:25 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Yay, I was very shocked this wasn't already done when I made a server to test out the site.

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  February 15, 2013 7:01 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Working on this in the meantime we've heard from other customers that Columbia.edu's mirror of ubuntu is very fast from our NYC region 12MB/s =]

• Rodolfo Pilas commented  ·  February 14, 2013 10:44 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Please, a Debian mirror too

• Joseph Chang commented  ·  February 13, 2013 4:55 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Debian, too!

• Anonymous commented  ·  February 4, 2013 11:36 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Squid?

• Pierre-Louis Gottfrois commented  ·  January 24, 2013 6:35 a.m.  ·  Delete

  This is a great idea ! +1

• Anonymous commented  ·  January 21, 2013 3:53 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Also setup a Debian mirror.

• AdminMoisey Uretsky (Head of Product, Digital Ocean) commented  ·  January 18, 2013 7:30 a.m.  ·  Delete

  This is a great suggestion and something we will definitely look into as soon as we clear through a bit more of our backlog on feature requests.

• John Lester commented  ·  January 17, 2013 8:40 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Can't give this one enough votes - was actually surprised you didn't already have this!

• Ryan Sanden commented  ·  January 17, 2013 7:53 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Yes, this seems like a win/win for both us and them. Currently an ubuntu 12.04 apt-mirror requires about 125G of disk space for (32bit + 64bit + source).