Caching hackage
On several occasions I noticed that when performing a cabal update that the index was being downloaded at the rate of plus min 300 KB/s. Finally I got around to do something about this. I’ve set up a caching server located in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It is a caching proxy for the hackage repository. If you want to use it, add the following to your ~/.cabal/config file. (Or equivalent on Windows.)