We had a few reports from the United States and Australia regarding slow download speeds for our larger binary files (.exe, .zip, .tar.xz and .dmg). Currently all files are hosted at our hosting provider in Germany, so "overseas" users are suffering from transatlantic (or transpacific) latency and limited peering bandwidth.
Therefore we made downloads also available via the Bunny Content Distribution Network. In Firefox, it looks like this:
This is a paid service, so the project has to finance every download. If our total download volume of currently 3.5 TB per month ran via this service, we would incur a considerable cost.
Therefore using CDN is a click away from the regular download page at www.betterbird.eu/downloads/, and we ask our users to use the service with care. We assume that no European user would need it. If the costs run too high, we will have to restrict this to certain regions.