[Box-Admins] box4

[Ken Causey]

On 11/27/2012 06:30 AM, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> This is Ken's assessment of the box situation appended below. I figure
> I'll ask Brad/SFC for one more VPS, one more box, which we'll call box4.
> We'll leave box3 as it is and get the balance of what we need with one
> final request. I'll submit the request to the SFC Wednesday afternoon.
> If these specs for box4 cannot fulfill our needs, now would be the time
> to say what we actually need.
>
> box4:
>
> 1 CPU
> 1024 MB RAM
> 100GB Disk space
> 10Mbps bandwidth
> AMD64 Debian
>
> Chris
>

What I said below is still my opinion and what I believe we DO actually 
need.  With any less I can't be confident that we could replicate all 
existing services.  It would be really problematic to move 75% or more 
to a new box and then have stuff left on the Hetzner box and have to 
wait on and be uncertain of the availability of another server.  I 
really see no reason not to go ahead and make the request as is.

Ken

>
> "While talking to Brad about the disk space issue on box3 I decided to
> take the opportunity to quiz him about what else we can reasonably ask
> for and about other hosting options. In short right now Gandi is the
> only service that has been willing to donate although he his pursuing
> others and that he his happy to take requests and will fulfill them in a
> first come first serve fashion. As such in my opinion I think we should
> go ahead and try to get more Gandi services with the goal of having
> enough to fulfill our needs even if we pursue other hosting options in
> the future. Being multi-homed is better than not, but the immediate
> need is just having enough to fulfill our community's requirements.
>
> Details:
>
> 2 (two) Gandi VPS servers each with:
>
> 1 CPU
> 1024 MB RAM
> 100GB Disk space
> 10Mbps bandwidth
> Latest AMD64 Debian Linux version available.
>
> box4-squeak and box5-squeak are acceptable names to me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken"
>
>