[Box-Admins] Re: Distribution of Services on New Servers

[Ken Causey]

On 12/07/2012 02:53 PM, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> On 2012-12-07 3:45 PM, Ken Causey wrote:
>> So we now have two Gandi VPS servers courtesy of Gandi.net and the
>> SFC. The first was primarily requested for the purposes of setting up
>> the Jenkins continuous integration tool. We now have a second with the
>> overall goal of being able to migrate all services off of the aging
>> Hetzner server and close that account which will save us quite a bit
>> of money.
>>
>> I'm concerned that the one new VPS will not be sufficient for
>> everything and I've been thinking about what, if anything, we could
>> setup on the first server (box3). My concern is first of all that the
>> Jenkins process is a very 'spiky' one: the system will be very quiet
>> most of the time but when a build or test process is running the
>> system will be very busy. I don't think it is good to host a web
>> service on such a system because if someone visits during one of the
>> busy moments they will get a very different experience.
>>
>> But, I think what would be a reasonable fit would be the mailing
>> lists, mailman. If an email takes even 30 seconds longer to send or be
>> received it's really not going to matter or be noticed. There is a web
>> interface to mailman, but I don't think it will be affected much or is
>> even used that much.
>>
>> Chris: What are your thoughts? Do you feel that there is space on Box3
>> for the mailing lists? I think of this system is primarily your
>> concern since the Jenkins setup is your baby.
>>
>> Ken
> Your reasoning makes sense to me. Jenkins use is extreme but rare. And
> Mailman needs to do its job reliably, but people have different
> expectations about the timeliness of email as opposed to waiting for a
> webpage. Sounds like a good division of services.
>
> Chris

Great, thanks.  I'll put that 'in the plan' then.

Ken

P.S. Oops, I didn't mean to use my gmail account on the first email.