Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, closer to you

A fast EPEL mirror, with a cookbook on top.

epel.cloud serves the EPEL package repositories through Cloudflare's edge cache, so dnf fetches metadata and RPMs from a location near your servers. The cookbook is a small set of Enterprise Linux recipes we actually ran, with real output, on the dates stamped on them.

Browse the recipes Use the mirror

/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
[epel]
name=EPEL $releasever via epel.cloud
baseurl=https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-$releasever

Tested recipes

Every recipe was executed start to finish in a clean Enterprise Linux environment before publishing. The stamp shows when.

Tested 2026-10-26

EPEL 7 is archived: checking PHP2Shell fixes on CentOS 7

Check PHP2Shell package releases on CentOS 7, distinguish Remi packages from software collections, and understand why an EPEL archive is not a security update channel.

Works on
CentOS 7
Time
10 minutes
Ingredients
2 packages
Tested 2026-10-11

Stop SSH brute force with fail2ban

Install fail2ban from EPEL on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or RHEL 9/10 and ban IPs that hammer sshd, with nftables bans and safe unban commands.

Works on
EL 9 · EL 10
Time
15 minutes
Ingredients
2 packages
Tested 2026-10-11

Replace Redis with Valkey on EL 9/10

Install Valkey from AppStream on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or RHEL 9/10, migrate an existing Redis dump, and verify persistence across restarts.

Works on
EL 9 · EL 10
Time
20 minutes
Ingredients
1 package
Tested 2026-10-11

Scan uploads for malware with ClamAV

Run the clamd scanning daemon from EPEL on EL 9/10, keep signatures fresh with freshclam, scan web upload directories on a timer, and verify detection with EICAR.

Works on
EL 9 · EL 10
Time
30 minutes
Ingredients
3 packages
Tested 2026-10-11

Encrypted server backups with restic

Set up restic from EPEL on EL 9/10 for encrypted, deduplicated backups with a systemd timer, retention policy, integrity checks and a tested restore.

Works on
EL 9 · EL 10
Time
30 minutes
Ingredients
1 package
Tested 2026-10-11

Serve Brotli-compressed pages with NGINX

Enable Brotli compression in NGINX on EL 9/10 with prebuilt RPMs - the in-distro EPEL module or GetPageSpeed's current-NGINX build - with measured size savings.

Works on
EL 9 · EL 10
Time
20 minutes
Ingredients
2 packages

About the mirror

The mirror namespace is /pub/epel/, the same layout as any Fedora mirror. EPEL 8, 9 and 10 are served live; EPEL 7 requests redirect to the Fedora archives where they now live. RPM bytes and GPG signatures are passed through unchanged from Fedora's own download servers, so gpgcheck=1 keeps working exactly as upstream intends.

There is no signup, no token and no rate limit aimed at package managers. If you run Enterprise Linux machines far from the US, pointing dnf here usually shortens metadata refresh and download times. Setup instructions →