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I am a user from China and I am affected by flathub/flathub#813, as GFW in China completely censored Fastly CDN.
Currently flatpak repo are only intended to used by a CDN, but it bascially restricted the mirroring method to becoming a reverse proxy, which is proved very toxic to mirror sites: for tuna and sjtug
Support both unauthorized client and authorized client
Rsync problems
Pressure on server resource
Still more costly than plain deb/rpm packages (but better than making large number of small http requests)
CDN advantage
Doesn't require a strong server
Approachable to many (but not more than mirror sites since CDN providers are not approachable everywhere) areas using a relatively low price
CDN-only problems
Effectively limits mirror methods to reverse proxy only, which is unacceptable for some mirror sites and irritating for the rest
Too many delta file increases the risk of failure because of increased number of http request round trip
No safe and incremental way of recovering from failed download
These are not flatpak-specific issues; many FOSS projects are affected by them.
Many mirror sites can support rsync in addition to plain http; for these sites rsync are a proved working way of mirroring and are way easier to manage. If remotes like flathub doesn't have much server resource, they can limit the bandwidth to unauthorized clients and reserve more resource to mirror sites.
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