2023-01-19

Void Accepted to Fastly Fast Forward!

Did you know that Void has over 20 mirrors? We have mirrors all over the world, but just having a bunch of servers isn’t enough to effectively deliver package updates to all Void users. A mirror that is nearby can have extremely good performance if you know it’s there and switch to it, but for many people what we would like to offer is just a URL that works anywhere in the world to provide the best download experience available in that location. When you look at what we’re trying to achieve, its pretty clear we’d be trying to build a content delivery network (CDN) for Void.

Rather than re-inventing the wheel, we reached out to the team at Fastly to see if they’d be interested in working with us to improve the default package experience for Void users globally. We’re excited to announce that the answer is yes; Void has been accepted to the Fastly Fast Forward program. As part of this project, we’ll be provisioning a new repo URL that will retrieve packages via Fastly’s global CDN.

Stay tuned over the next few weeks for the new mirror to become live, and a post about how Void’s mirror infrastructure works!