Kap: Downloading DMG from now.sh is painfully slow or fails
Platform:
NA
Kap Version:
Steps to reproduce
Donwload the .dmg file
Current behaviour
Slow, connection often resets
Expected behaviour
Simple fast, easy to download
Downloading the .dmg file from now.sh is extremely slow and ofthen the connection reset causing download to fail.
Can we move this to, for example, S3 bucket?
rturk
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From clicking the link to the download starting takes a minute for me, but when it first starts it downloaded in seconds on my fast connection.
sindresorhus
on 5 Jul 2017
@sindresorhus any reason for not using S3 or github?
rturk
on 5 Jul 2017
Dialling in @rauchg and @matheuss as it might be something they want to look into. For me now.sh is super snappy and reliable, but I'm open to adding in a direct link to download from GitHub as an additional alternative.
skllcrn
on 5 Jul 2017
I'm not entirely familiar with how it works, but I think the now.sh service is just redirecting to the CircleCI-hosted artifacts: https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/build-artifacts/
sindresorhus
on 5 Jul 2017
I am incapable of downloading Kap via the download link. Every time I try it gets a few KB in and then fails. Definitely needs to be fixed.
mattaningram
on 5 Jul 2017
The issues is down to nuts. I'll redirect the download location directly to github tomorrow morning.
timothyis
on 6 Jul 2017
This is why static hosting is so important. Just saying...
whmountains
on 6 Jul 2017
@whmountains and expensive 😄 Bandwidth is not free at all
matheuss
on 6 Jul 2017
@whmountains just fixed it temporarily by using the direct GitHub Releases link 👌
To be honest, we may keep this solution – we don't need to go through the updates server for /download 👌
matheuss
on 6 Jul 2017
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@whmountains and expensive 😄 Bandwidth is not free at all