pear.php.net is now mirrored

It's been a while since my last blog post, I've found myself with more limited free time than usual and have thus had to focus on the really important things.  I was recently elected president of PEAR (I ran unopposed, so it's a durn good thing I was elected), and this has resulted in a flurry of activity.  A lot of energy is going into revamping the PEAR website, http://pear.php.net.  At this stage, most of the changes are not visible to the naked eye, as we are writing unit tests and refactoring gradually.  However, one change will be highly visible.

I'm excited to announce the first two mirrors of pear.php.net are now actively mirroring the installer REST files and actual .tgz files of package releases.  They are http://us.pear.php.net (provided by Joshua Eichorn and bluga.net) and http://de.pear.php.net (provided by Christian Weiske).  The option exists at a future date of mirroring the entire website, but this will not be possible without further changes to the infrastructure.

To try out one of the new mirrors, simply run:

pear config-set preferred_mirror us.pear.php.net

or

pear config-set preferred_mirror de.pear.php.net

Then, continue using the installer normally.  Users in Europe may notice a considerable performance increase by using de.pear.php.net.  Ain't progress great?