# New Geo-Location Mirror Service

DevFeed: [New Geo-Location Mirror Service](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/new-geo-location-mirror-service-53542.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://almalinux.org/blog/new-geo-location-mirror-service/>)

Author: Jack Aboutboul

Published: 2021-06-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [AlmaLinux](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-on-almalinux.md>)

Topics: [service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/service.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

Tags: [faster](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/faster.md>), [iso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iso.md>), [packages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/packages.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/service.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>)

## AI overview

AlmaLinux introduces a geo-location mirror service that returns nearby mirrors for package and update downloads and nearby servers hosting ISO images. Users can test it by adding a specified hosts-file entry, with feedback requested through AlmaLinux community channels.

## Source excerpt

Hi all, we've developed a new geo-location mirror service which should make things a lot faster, simpler and easier when installing packages, updates and downloading ISOs. When hitting https://mirrors.almalinux.org It will allow you to: List the mirrors nearest to you when fetching a mirrorlist (https://images2.imgbox.com/b2/55/i0aCscHk_o.png) Give you a list of the nearest servers to you with ISO images (https://images2.imgbox.com/37/b1/oJHASQ4w_o.png) You can help test it out. Add the following record in /etc/hosts on your server: