[Box-Admins] Re: [Board] Re: Moving box3 off Gandi hosting

[Levente Uzonyi]

I wonder why I haven't received any of the previous emails in this 
thread.

Anyway, if there's really an account ready for us to use, then we should 
decide on what the parameters of the new server should be.

I suppose 4 GB of ram, 2 cores would be enough to run all services 
smoothly. The current bandwith is suboptimal, but I'm sure it will be at 
least 100 Mbit/s at Rackspace. So, the only question that remains is disk 
size.
We currently use 47 GB on box3 and 82 GB on box4. I think twice as many 
would be nice, which is ~260 GB.

For the OS, I'd use Debian 8.5.

For the services, I don't know if I would use containers (e.g. docker) or 
not. They make installation easier and they provide better separation. 
On the other hand they require more resources (disk + RAM), and 
maintenance can be more cumbersome.

Levente

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 06:25:51PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Tony Sebro <tony at sfconservancy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/23/2016 11:15 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
>>>> Squeakers,
>>>>
>>>> It seems likely that Gandi won't renew our donated services, and even
>>>> more, they are shutting down the coloc facility where box3.squeak.org
>>>> lives as of 2016-12-01.
>>>>
>>>> As such, I really suggest we move box3 and box4 off of Gandi's hosting
>>>> services onto the Rackspace services that we can get donated for you.
>>> As a reminder, we've already set up a Rackspace account for Squeak based
>>> on previous conversations.  Please let me know who needs access to
>>> handle the migration, and I'll create the necessary subaccount(s).  If
>>> you need to ping me via IRC, I'm available at keynote2k on freenode.
>>>
>>> Thanks!  Best, -Tony
>>>
>>
>> Did someone reply? Where do we stand?
>>
>
> I have not seen a reply, but we certainly need to respond. It's probably
> best to have one person acting as our point of contact just to avoid
> confusion (Tim, is that you?).
>
> We will need to rely on Levente for overall guidance and expertise,
> but the board needs to take ownership of communicating the strategy and
> direction (this should to a main topic for our next SOB meeting). We
> also need to identify the scope of work to be done, and find suitable
> volunteers to drive each of the services that needs to be migrated, and
> to do the actual work of migrating them.
>
> For starters, I will volunteer to do the migration of squeaksource.com
> from box3.squeak.org to the new Rackspace servers.
>
> Dave
>
>