[Box-Admins] Fwd: Squeak's Rackspace account (was: Re: Setting up an account that can submit report requests to Hetzner)

[Tobias Pape]

On 21.09.2016, at 20:34, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Tobias Pape wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 07.09.2016, at 19:31, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all, I found this email invitation for us to get access to our Rackspace box.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry that I sidestepped that.
>> I just wanted to have an impression of what rackspace looks like and what it does.
> 
> How will we gain access?
> 

Bradley or Tony Sebro set those up.
Tony's Mail from January:

> Hi, all.  I've received confirmation that Conservancy's Rackspace
> account for Squeak has indeed been approved for inclusion in Rackspace's
> FOSS discount program. 
>
> I can now set up subaccounts for Squeak contributors who want to manage
> the clound account.  Please send me the email addresses of those of you
> who should get subaccounts.

>> 
>> I did that and had a look around.
>> 
>> Basically, It is not unlike ghandi, but we have more control and also CDN.
>> 
>> We could migrate the individual services to an own vm each (which should be manageable and also feasible).
> 
> You mean it would be easier to manage about ten servers than one?

Yes.
Currently, we hat some issues where one service would drag down the whole box and just like that 4..5 services were gone.
Remember when Box2 went away.

> 
> Would it be future-proof? I mean if we had to move again, and the new provider were not so generous with resources, we would have to "merge" the servers again, wouldn't we?

I don't know.

> 
>> 
>> We continue to have to manage things like mailman.
>> 
>> We can, however, have DNS managed through rackspace, which would give us some advantages (especially regarding CDN).
>> 
>> With properly set up CDN, we can (Finally) have a fast files.squeak.org, and - with some effort - theoretically fast source.squeak.org mcz.
> 
> The reason why files.squeak.org is slow currently is that Gandi gives us limited bandwidth (I think it's 20-50Mb/s) and we don't use HTTP2.

And that gandi's servers and, for example, South American Squeak users tend to be geographically far away.

>> From the images we don't even use keep-alive, so things are really slow.
> Also, the kernel is old, so it doesn't have TCP Fast Open.

Ok.

> 
>> 
>> Most of the things are definitely possible until december.
> 
> That's great to hear.


:)

Best regards
	-Tobias

> 
> Levente
> 
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 	-Tobias
>> 
>>> We discussed in our meeting today that we should give Tony a list of
>>> people rather than invidually.
>>> Have we taken this step yet, or is this the next step?
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Tony Sebro <tony at sfconservancy.org>
>>> Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:54 PM
>>> Subject: Squeak's Rackspace account (was: Re: Setting up an account
>>> that can submit report requests to Hetzner)
>>> To: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>, Bert Freudenberg
>>> <bert at freudenbergs.de>, squeak at sfconservancy.org
>>> Cc: "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com>, leves at elte.hu,
>>> goran at krampe.se, "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn at stonehenge.com>, Ian
>>> Piumarta <piumarta at gmail.com>, brasspen at gmail.com,
>>> ma.chris.m at gmail.com, Tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>, Eliot Miranda
>>> <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org>,
>>> frank.shearar at gmail.com, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 01/05/2015 02:34 PM, Tony Sebro wrote:
>>>> Hi, all.  Happy New Year.
>>>> 
>>>> I've created a Rackspace account for Squeak, and I've submitted a
>>>> request that the account be added to their FOSS discount program (which
>>>> provides a $2,000/month credit for managed infrastructure accounts for
>>>> FOSS projects).  If/when I receive confirmation, I'll set up admin
>>>> subaccounts for Squeak volunteers who want to manage Rackspace services
>>>> on behalf of the project.
>>>> 
>>>> I'll keep you posted on my progress.  Best, -Tony
>>>> 
>>> Hi, all.  I've received confirmation that Conservancy's Rackspace
>>> account for Squeak has indeed been approved for inclusion in Rackspace's
>>> FOSS discount program.
>>> 
>>> I can now set up subaccounts for Squeak contributors who want to manage
>>> the clound account.  Please send me the email addresses of those of you
>>> who should get subaccounts.
>>> 
>>> Thanks! -Tony
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom Conservancy
>>> +1-212-461-3245 x11
>>> tony at sfconservancy.org
>>> www.sfconservancy.org
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