If you're interested to download software releases from Apache Software Foundation, you'd need to use one of the Apache mirror sites for the download. Usually, the download page of respective Apache project will present the user with the closest mirrors to the user's location. But sparingly, the mirror site presented by the project download page might not be responding (i.e there could be some problem with a specific mirror, like it may be down). You might then wonder, what should I do now, and I need this software?
Following is a handy site, to see the runtime status of all Apache mirrors: https://www.apache.org/mirrors/. Any mirror can be fully navigated via this link. Each mirror hosts all Apache projects. In a sparing situation, that the project download page presents with a non-responsive mirror, the users could go to the site https://www.apache.org/mirrors/ and download software from there by choosing an alternative mirror, and navigating to the respective project.
Usually, various Apache software download pages, allow user to select certain alternative mirrors. Refreshing the Apache project download pages usually also presents alternative mirror sites. If that solves the problem, then going to https://www.apache.org/mirrors/ for download may not be necessary.
I hope this could help someone, while downloading Apache softwares.
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