As a developer, you often need to download some essential common software, such as git, 7z, Wireshark, golang, Maven, and so on. As an operations personnel, you often need to download images of CentOS, Debian, and so on. As a self-media live streaming industry, you often need to download OBS Studio, and so on. So how do you download these software? Do you find it difficult to use a search engine to find the official website? And do you often encounter slow download speeds even after finding the official website? Some websites may even be slow to access.
In fact, besides downloading from the official website, you can also download from the mirror sites of major universities, which synchronize the official resources for downloading. Of course, mirror sites do not provide downloads for commercial software.
And, the Campus Network Joint Mirror Site provides indexes and redirection services for the mirror sites of major universities. You can click on the link below to enter:
Campus Network Joint Mirror Site: https://mirrors.cernet.edu.cn/about
The mirror sites provide a wealth of download resources, such as compression software 7z, database software DBeaver, and so on. The mirror list page provides a list of various software and the number of mirror sites that provide the software, as well as the links. Taking the CentOS image as an example:
You can see the specific synchronization status of the mirror sites.
In addition, on the "Mirror Sites" page, you can see mirror sites of universities such as Nanjing University and Tsinghua University.
These sites generally have fast download speeds, especially for software with slow download speeds from overseas official websites. Downloading through mirror sites is much faster.
Taking Nanjing University Mirror Site as an example, when downloading Git for Windows, if you download it from the official Git website, the speed is very slow and there may even be situations where it cannot be downloaded. However, downloading through the mirror site is much faster.
Nanjing University Mirror Site: https://mirror.nju.edu.cn/