[X2Go-Project] Free Off-Site Backup/Mirror for X2Go

[Stefan Baur]

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_2014.pdf
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

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