[Box-Admins] Server needed for squeaksource hosting [caracciolo@iam.unibe.ch: Re: squeaksource.com transition to new server]

[David T. Lewis]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 09:50:08PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> We now have access to a complete snapshot copy of SqueakSource. I am
> in the process of retrieving the files to my personal PC (not yet complete,
> I'm still trying to get a clean copy of one large 15GB file), and I will
> now need a place to put them on squeak.org.
> 
> I need some help to proceed. We need a server with 20 to 30 GB of file space
> available for the SqueakSource files, and with memory and CPU resources
> similar to whatever we are currently doing for source.squeak.org.
> 
> Can someone help, either by giving me access to an existing server, or by
> letting me know what is available? I will need a user account (lewis) similar
> to my current account on build.squeak.org, and I will need sudo privilege
> to set up an account for squeaksource and to set up the runtime environment.
> 
> In addition it would be helpful if I could get enough access to the
> source.squeak.org server so that I can look at it and figure out how that
> server is configured. Even better would be if the source.squeak.org
> server has enough capacity (mainly disk space) to also host squeaksource,
> in which case we can put both of them on the same server.
> 
> I would like to do this as soon as possible (tomorrow perhaps?) so any
> assistance and pointers will be gratefully received.
>

I now (finally) have a complete copy of the SqueakSource files sitting on
my hard drive here in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here is what we have:

  -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users 16341844652 2013-08-24 04:21 Squeaksource-projects-22-8-2013.tar
  -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users     5558656 2013-08-23 08:20 Squeak-3.9-8-SqueakSource.app.tar
  -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users   167474616 2013-08-23 08:19 squeaksource.image
  -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users    15721301 2013-08-23 08:18 squeaksource.changes
  -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users         718 2013-08-23 08:18 squeaksource.com
  -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users        1686 2013-08-23 08:17 Workspace.text
  -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users    14542313 2013-08-23 08:17 SqueakV3.sources

After unpacking the files (these are compressed tars), the total disk usage
is a bit over 16 GB:

  lewis at linux-jh8m:~/squeak/SS/TransitionToSqueakDotOrg/WORK> du -s *
  21564   Squeak-3.9-8-SqueakSource.app
  15356   squeaksource.changes
  4       squeaksource.com
  163552  squeaksource.image
  14204   SqueakV3.sources
  16401280        ss
  4       Workspace.text

So a server with 20GB working space is sufficient, and 30GB would provide
comfortable headroom.

Dave