Artyom, Tony said, > 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.
Tony, what would be our next step to set up the server at EU colo provider? Thanks! -- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://dataved.ru/ +7 916 562 8095 On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Alexei Fedotov <[email protected]> wrote: > Tony, as I have said, the requirements are not as important as the > fact we have the server running. For those who feel that bandwidth is > not enough or is not reliable enough there is always an option to > switch to other test servers (or install their own server). We may add > a warning message at the welcome screen. > > As for your previous question, my AWS bills for two test servers are > ~$30 per month though micro-instance is kinda slow, and hetzner bills > are approx. ~$30 per server. For 100 Mbit/s connected server located > in Russia (with higher hosting costs) I pay 250$ / month. > -- > With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, > Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, > http://dataved.ru/ > +7 916 562 8095 > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Tony Stevenson <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> ---------------------------------- >> >>
