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

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Tobias Pape wrote:

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> On 31.08.2016, at 23:42, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The squeak.org website consumes a 1GB RAM allocation,
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> How so? Nginx takes less than 70MB ram and it serves more than squeak.org…
> Yes, there's a Squeak vm running that takes a gig, but It should be taken down as it is not used.
> (ive shut it down just now)

+1. Don't forget to remove old.squeak.org from nginx. I suppose there's a 
link to it from the current website, which should be removed as well.

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>> and the new
>> SqueakSource server(s) will need at least 500MB.  That only leaves
>> 2.5GB for everything else, as we upgrade more images to Spur, we'll
>> need more memory, could we get 6GB or 8GB RAM?
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> oO That's pretty much for a free, shared service we're about to get, to be frank.

I agree. Also, I don't think we will ever need that much RAM unless a new 
memory hungry app appears.

Levente

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> Best regards
> 	-Tobias
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>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
>>> I wonder why I haven't received any of the previous emails in this thread.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> For the OS, I'd use Debian 8.5.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Levente
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>>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, David T. Lewis wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 06:25:51PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>>>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Tony Sebro <tony at sfconservancy.org>
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>>>>>> On 08/23/2016 11:15 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> Thanks!  Best, -Tony
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>>>>> Did someone reply? Where do we stand?
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>>>> 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?).
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> For starters, I will volunteer to do the migration of squeaksource.com
>>>> from box3.squeak.org to the new Rackspace servers.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
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