On Di 22 Sep 2015 16:08:41 CEST, Stefan Baur wrote:
Hi everyone,
as you may (especially if you attended our X2Go - The Gathering 2015 event) or may not know, there is a Swiss company that would be happy to offer free Backup/Mirror space for X2Go in exchange for mentioning them on our sponsors page. The company in question is ZIIL (see CC: and www.ziil.ch).
What's especially cool about them is that their data center is located in a former Swiss army bunker (see http://www.ziil.ch/images/zeitungsartikel_kreuzlinger_zeitung_ziilrz_11_04_2... for some pictures).
Before asking them to provide a server (or multiple servers) to us, I would like everyone that maintains some kind of service for the project (git hosting, web hosting, build servers, whatever) to report back their current requirements regarding disk space for backups, plus also CPU/RAM requirements in case we could set up a secondary site for failover/loadbalancing there. If you can provide an estimate on expected future use, even better.
Note that for various legal reasons, the German site (currently hosted at Hetzner) is here to stay. Moving the whole project into neutral Switzerland might sound like a good idea at first, with the lovely strict information privacy laws that Switzerland has, but it opens another can of worms regarding copyright and trademarks (and defending them when neccessary), as we'd need a lawyer that has experience with Swiss and international law for that, and those aren't cheap. So, for the sake of simplicity (and also because there's some truth in "never change a running system" - the sites hosted at Hetzner have been there for years), we remain based in Germany, but if things work out as planned, we will use the Swiss site as a backup and possibly even as a load balancing and disaster recovery site.
Please report back to the list so we have a public overview of our services (I might assemble the info and put it on a separate wiki page later on). It would be cool if you could send in your answers until Friday afternoon, but if you need longer to assemble the info, that's okay, just let the list know that you need an extension of the deadline.
-Stefan
(root@ymir) {/srv/sites} # du -sh x2go.org/* 4,0K x2go.org/bugs 13G x2go.org/code 4,0K x2go.org/lists 4,9G x2go.org/packages
(root@ymir) {/srv/mailman} # du -sh . 3,2G .
(root@ymir) {/srv/debbugs} # du -sh . 72G . (ARGGGGGGHHHH....)
(root@ymir) {/srv/debbugs} # du -sh . 2,7G . (Nach Entrümpelung des Bug-Tracker Mail-Archivs)
So that is, we should have at least 120G for those Services as
Backup-Space. And we should make sure not to Archive all debbugs-Mail
because there is a lot SPAM amonst them.
Best, Mike
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