Tony Stevenson wrote on Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 06:46:55PM +0100: > 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.
Alexi, actually someone just reminded me that our new EU colo provider has enough bandwidth to cope with your request - however it is not QoSed so it cannot be guaranteed - but giving the amount they made available to us I dont think you would make a significant dent in that. The only issue now is the lack of hardware in this location to 'make it so'. We could look at purchasing a new box for the site, but we wouldnt be able to guarantee you the 25% of the server you wanted, and it would be a virtual machine that we'd give you. The colo would be in Europe, specifically in Germany. Would this be an issue for you? Please let us know, and I *might* be able to carry this forward. > > 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 > ---------------------------------- > > -- Cheers, Tony ---------------------------------- Tony Stevenson [email protected] [email protected] http://www.pc-tony.com GPG - 1024D/51047D66 ----------------------------------
