[Box-Admins] Re: Squeak Gandi server

[Chris Cunnington]

On 12-09-27 1:47 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> Chris Cunnington wrote at 16:18 (EDT) on Wednesday:
>
>> I rounded up some details about a server we would like to use at
>> Gandi. If we could get a 2 shares, 1 CPU, 1GB RAM, 20 Mbps guaranteed
>> bandwidth and 60 GB disk space that would be great. The name would be
>> box3.squeak.org.
> One thing missing from your request I need: what distribution do you
> want me to spin up on it as the initial default?  Presumably you can
> change it after the fact, but that's probably annoying.
>
> The choices are various 32bit and 64bit versions of CentOS, Debian,
> Mandrivia, and Ubuntu.  I couldn't easily extract the full list from the
> web interface b/c it was embedded in a bunch of Javascript.
>
Yea, that's an obvious question and I forgot. 32bit Debian, please.
> Also, would you rather the server be in Baltimore, MD, USA facility or
> the Paris, France one?
>
>> I've attached two ssh keys (mine and Ken Causey). If there's anything
>> I've left out that is required, please let me know. Thanks very much.
> I think I can only add one ssh key to start.  Whose should I first?
> (You'll then have root and able to add the second).
Ken Causey.
>
> Meanwhile, I've had more correspondence with Gandi about the delegation
> of web interface thing.  Apparently, this is actually common with
> multiple VPS hosters (I've talked to multiple ones about this now,
> including Gandi), but delegating a specific VPS associated with one
> account isn't possible at Gandi, nor is it on any other hoster I can
> find.
>
> So, our options would be to have 38 (and growing!) accounts, one for
> each Conservancy project, and somehow transfer money between them (which
> I don't think is even possible), or this problem: which is that
> individual projects can't reboot, change the kernels, etc.  I wrote to
> the VP at Gandi who coordinated this initial donation and am talking
> with other folks I know at various VPS providers to see what else I can
> learn about this problem.  I have confirmed that OpenStack doesn't
> support this feature, nor is it on its roadmap, which means it's
> unlikely that any OpenStack-based provider would have this feature.
Interesting. Thanks for outlining that part of it.

And thanks for the quick response!

Chris