{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/644","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/644/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/644/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/644/events","html_url":"https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/644","id":26154573,"number":644,"title":"International Mirrors","user":{"login":"skorfmann","id":136789,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/136789?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/skorfmann","html_url":"https://github.com/skorfmann","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skorfmann/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skorfmann/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skorfmann/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skorfmann/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skorfmann/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skorfmann/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skorfmann/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skorfmann/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/skorfmann/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rubygems/rubygems.org/labels/health","name":"health","color":"dba7a7"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":10,"created_at":"2014-01-23T09:47:01Z","updated_at":"2015-04-08T22:46:32Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I've been travelling across Australia and South-East Asia in the past 18 months and installing Gems was quite a hassle sometimes. Currently, I'm located in Vietnam which has particularly bad international internet connections. I reckon that the major problem is the huge latency to the S3 storage backend in the US.\r\n\r\nI think it would be a great improvement to provide the possibility of regional mirrors for the data and it would be another step to a mature Ruby world.\r\n\r\nI'm certainly [not the only one](http://binarymentalist.com/post/1314642927/proposal-we-have-to-create-a-rubygems-mirror-network) who is keen to make this happen.\r\n\r\nHave there been plans like this already?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/comments/91058277","html_url":"https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/644#issuecomment-91058277","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/644","id":91058277,"user":{"login":"simi","id":193936,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/193936?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/simi","html_url":"https://github.com/simi","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/simi/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/simi/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/simi/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/simi/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/simi/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/simi/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/simi/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/simi/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/simi/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-08T22:46:32Z","updated_at":"2015-04-08T22:46:32Z","body":"@arthurnn It [looks like](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems-aws/commits/master/chef/site-cookbooks/rubygems/templates/default/nginx_balancer.conf.erb) it is not."}}