[QGIS-Developer] Reducing the size of our download packages

[Tim Sutton]

Hi all

Here in the infrastructure management club for QGIS we have been embarking
on a plan to slowly divest ourselves of 'big tech'. At the end of last year
we switched off cloudflare CDN and implemented our own caching servers. At
that time we were doing around 130TB of throughput (including what was
being soaked up by Cloudflare). As of last month we did 430TB of throughput
without the help of Cloudflare.

We are trying to optimise costs - that bandwidth alone cost us in the
neighbourhood of 500€ per month. To reduce costs we can approach the
problem in two way:

1. optimise the infrastructure - we (QGIS Devops team) are busy looking
into ways to do that...
2. reduce the download size...

We are wondering if the datum shift files could be split out from the main
installer and fetched as an optional extra? Or maybe on demand as you need
them? We could set up some infrastructure for hosting them, but we would
need some help on the application side to implement logic to go and grab
shift files that are not locally cached. Is anyone able to help with this?

Regards

Tim




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