New mirror added in Poland, thanks to @nicram 
this will improve a lot the download speeds from europe! haha 
How to check if this mirror is the one selected for you: https://www.elivecd.org/downloads/mirrorcheck/
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Problem is that i cannot grant 24/7 uptime.
Technically, the computer is up 24/7.
Practically, i was running a demo of a webapp for a customer on it as a fallback server and when the main server failed (provider's fault) there has been a blackout in my hometown so my server went down too 
And damn! How to overcome such problem?
Moreover @Thanatermesis, what about making a container for docker that provides all the settings you'd need for a mirror? Maybe making the setup easier would make people more willing to share some of their server resources for the project!
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Great idea! Welcome back @stoppy98!
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Thank you... It's been such a busy time i did not even realize how much time i've been away...
Everyone complaining that with pandemic there is nothing to do, me complaining i've never had so much to do D: (moreover everything got overcomplicated so...)
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Yeah, I agree, Never been so my busy for a long time.....excepting the time our kids were just born.
Nice to hear from you again @stoppy98 ..... you prolly got quite a number of good photographs to share. 
I wish I did!
Had no occasion since 31th of October 2020...
With the pandemic going on i almost never left my house.
Just a few portraits of a friend, she was a great model but I don't know how much enjoyable these pictures could be 
I actually did upload already my latest great pics!
Thanks to @A504Vet , we have a new mirror for the ISOs located in Miami, as you know the downloading of mirror of the isos is always selected based on your geolocation as you can see on https://www.elivecd.org/downloads/mirrorcheck
Thanks again a lot! Steve 
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hey guys
I was wondering that is it possible to use Github pages since they will take care of everything and since we don't expect them to be down any time soon, I'm suggesting that we can host elive ISO files there
Hey, welcome tot he forum! 
I'm not sure if that'd be considered abuse.
Plus, the ISOs would not be able to be viewed publicly, and you need to store the stuff in a github repo, which would be public or if you had github pro, can be public.
But the main bottleneck(s): 1. Rsync doesn't work, 2. GitHub only allows 500MB per push, which is a fraction of te size of the main ISO
Nice idea though, hadn't thought of that one ... would've been nice if the 500MB per push limit wasn't there...
WAIT!
Is there a time-out for GitHub Actions?
We could just push an empty commit to the repository and GitHub Actions could download the stuff from a private server. We could put it as a public repo, using github secrets that would have thhe urls to download from, and authenticatio
Remember - GitHub Actions uses Jekyll, which needs GitHub Actions!
Updates:
- We have now 2 more mirrors (which was pretty needed):
- one in Mexico
- one in Canada (thanks to @TheTechRobo)
- The howto has ben shrinked a lot to what originally was written, I'm sure there's many people which didn't wanted to make the mirror after to see how long it was the howto originally lol
- Elive-for-servers supports automatic creation of a mirror
already tested with these 2 previous mirrors, automating all the process in a fast and single shot
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Actual mirrors available for Elive: https://www.elivecd.org/downloads/mirrorcheck
I'd like to add a mirror for Elive, that link to the script is no longer working. Are the manual instructions still valid?
I can offer nearly unlimited storage and have about 2gbps slack on a 5gbps link.
The link to github is indeed dead (I'll remove it) but that wasn't a link to a script but rather to a downloadable "elive-for-servers" instance. That download has been moved to be part of the premium offers Elive now has. For more info see: Premium - Elive Linux
For other web-servers like 'nginx or 'apache'' there's the step-by-step HowTo below it, in the first post which is fairly simple.
If anything else is unclear, feel free to ask but do tell us how you intend to set up your server (hard- and soft-ware specs).
Anyway, a big thank you for the offer ... even if it, ultimately doesn't work out.
Thank you for the response.
I've carved out a container for the mirror, currently 8 cores, 16gb ram, 64tb of space and it's on a 5gbps link. I've setup the user as desired, i believe it's more than enough juice for nginx. I just don't have port 22 open, i'd prefer to use another port. Is that something we can do?
Actually port 22 isn't required in any way for Elive itself or the mirror ....only for personal admin access so you could change that to any port you'd like.
I know I would, cause there's just to many stupid bots continually hammering 22 and filling my logs. 
Exactly!
Well in that case we're set. I sent an email to Thanatermesis, just waiting on a reply.
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Actually collaborators of Elive (like mirrors) should have access to premium so that should not be an issue, I just granted it to @bobokale via email
That's not an issue, the sync of the mirrors can use a specific different port
Not really, the updated files are sent every hour (only if there's changes) via rsync which uses ssh, so yes it is actually needed 
just use fail2ban i don't know another way to have a server ssh featured (very needed) without bots trying
The only option would be to personalize the rsync/ssh feature to the desired port. Maybe not a bad idea.
I did (and still do) in my server and when browsing the logs, it's shocking to see how many try with a 'root' login. Using another random port and closing 22 at least blocks most at the port scanning level.
this is implemented, any port to use can be configured in the script, but the protocol that rsync uses is ssh (so, ssh is needed for it)
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