# The NixOS Foundation's Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672
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**Created:** [June 2, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672 "2023-06-02T18:15:26Z")
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### Author: ![matthewcroughan](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/matthewcroughan/32/9512_2.png) [@matthewcroughan](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/matthewcroughan)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672/105 "2023-06-06T07:35:53Z")

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I’m aware of some mirrors of hydra, which is very helpful. It should be easier to set up a mirror, and it should actively be promoted. There are more concerns than just storage, [such as DNS Blocks](https://releases.nixos.org/nix-dev/2016-October/022029.html), which effect reproducibility (another benefit of using something like bittorrent/ipfs as a substitution mechanism)

[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/32659](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/32659)

[https://nix-mirror.freetls.fastly.net/](https://nix-mirror.freetls.fastly.net/)

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