[deathanatos]

I think crates.io is essentially just the default, and you can point cargo to an alternate package repository, if you so desire.

I've worked on projects where we vendored all third-party crates, for example, so our config just pointed to that vendoring, and I think support ought to be better these days…

[junon]

Correct. You're welcome to mirror or host a private one. Cargo makes it _relatively_ easy to do (saying this as somewhat of a cargo hater).