[bisq-network/proposals] Host downloads on self-managed server (#72)

Manfred Karrer notifications at github.com
Tue Feb 12 15:10:58 UTC 2019


@devinbileck Thanks for the proposal.
I basically agree to the motivations but I think there are several issues which need to be considered:
- Security of server is super important. Github has a good track record on that, at least I am not aware of any security breach of their infrastructure.
- Binaries are quite big (about 100 MB) and we get about 10 000 - 20 000 downloads for each release. Not sure what are the costs for hosting that with such a high traffic. Also CDN speeds up download and would make it more complex/expensive to support on our own (e.g. own server + cloudflare) as well it could add another security vulnerability.
- We would like to move away from Github anyway once we have someone who is trusted/reliable/available enough to make that his project. With such a move we would likely use a self hosted solution anyway.
- If we have a contributor who manages/hosts that it adds a lot of responsibility. Github feels more safe to me than a self hosted solution atm. I think censorship resistance in that area is not as important as security. And if Github would start to de-platform Bitcoin projects we still can move so it is not a critical vulnerability regarding censorship resistance.

But I agree totally to the importance of backups! If you have any idea how we can do that and specailly for the DAO related content, would be great! An external Git repo which monitors pages and dumps content to new versions would be good. Would be surprised if nobody has built that already...

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