Alexei Fedotov wrote on Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:32:12PM +0400: > Tony, I'm sorry. This was discussed for sure. Things sometimes change over > time, that's why I have asked once again. > > We have have several test servers and chat channels hosted around. My > intention was to have more > development resources hosted @apache and branded by apache.
Generally that is a good thing. However your requirements are significant, and this is not something we could in all good faith commit too. Sorry. Please do not mis-read my reply - I was trying to be open and honest. While over time we might well be able to offer you all the hardware you need, it is so very extremely unlikely we could meet your bandwidth needs. All our bandwidth is donated to us for free, and as such it doesnt come in huge quantities; and where we do have it we have to prioritise core services over that of development instances (i.e. svn and http over that of pmc specific needs). It's not that we dont want to help, but we only have finite resources, and we need to be careful not to over commit them. Bandwith is one such commodity where we need to be careful. One option that springs to mind is the use of AWS and friends, while they will not guarantee you the resources you want I suspect you might get somewhere close most of the time. Though again, if you need these as a minimum resource at all times we will have to look elsewhere. There might be some money free in the budget to allow you to use such a service. Before we throw up n VMs in an attempt to guess if it will work for you, can you perhaps go back to your PMC and discuss the idea of VMs with the likes of AWS, and when you find a vendor please do a little research into the options, then let us know what you want to do. Please note that the budget is not endless, and if you want to saturate 20Mb/s or more, then I guess the bill from AWS will be significant and you might not get a lot of AWS time as a reuslt - so please look carefully and come back to us with options and we can take those forward for you. I'm pushing this back to you to do the research as we are kinda snowed under somewhat and if you can do this part we might just be able to say "go for it" and let you have at it. I stress 'might' :) -- Cheers, Tony ---------------------------------- Tony Stevenson [email protected] [email protected] http://www.pc-tony.com GPG - 1024D/51047D66 ----------------------------------
