I have added an idea to the SAC Transition Plan page (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Transition_Plan_2014). What happened recently during our infrastructure 'challenges' was that when I awoke one morning (Atlantic, AST timezone) all of our SysAdmins were on the West coast of North America and fast asleep for at least another 4 hours, and I was asked to go into the #osuosl IRC channel to speak with the host's technical people about OSGeo's servers (it should not have been me doing that!). Therefore I have added the following to the transition plan:
* Have a Systems "fire crew" on alert throughout the entire day, 24x7 ** at least one "fire crew" member (ready to handle any emergency SAC issues) on alert at any time in the day, which includes one in the North American timezone, one in a European timezone, and one in an Asia/Pacific timezone ** "fire crew" positions should be funded/paid -jeff > > > On 2014-04-18, 8:50 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: >> Calling all Project Steering Committees, SAC is looking at the future of >> OSGeo hosted services. Please chime in with your wants and needs for the >> next 3-5 years. We want to maximize services while being efficient about >> effort (pooling sys admin time amongst projects). >> >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Transition_Plan_2014 >> >> More details below. >> >> Thanks, >> Alex >> OSGeo Sys Admin Committee Chair >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [SAC] Upgrade Planning 2014 >> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:25:41 -0700 >> From: Alex Mandel <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: [email protected], System Administration Committee >> Discussion/OSGeo <[email protected]> >> To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo <[email protected]> >> >> In light of our recent hardware woes, the ending of osgeo1, and the age >> of current machines (3-4yrs) I think it's time to start planning what to >> do next. >> >> We do have budget, and the board is interested in ideas and additional >> funding is not out of the question. >> >> >From my perspective, I think we need: >> 1. To survey PSC of all projects to assess what services we should >> offer. Do we need buildbots, sphinx builds, mail service, issue >> tracking, various CMS/wiki, mirrors, bandwidth for downloads? Now that >> everyone is love with Github (any word on what the next hot host will >> be), are there things we should retire? >> >> 2. Look at other hosting options besides physical machines in one place. >> Renting space like QGIS or OSM, racking machines elsewhere, getting >> OSGeo-ICA labs to mirror. If we do mirror look at GeoCDN and MirrorBrain >> for geo-ip redirection balancing. >> >> 3. Look at new hardware that better meets the needs. RAID is nice but >> not always the right answer to needs as we discovered recently. We also >> didn't buy specific to Ganeti/Cloud style setups where hotcopy failover >> works best with multiple identical machines, and lots of smaller disks >> with single disks per VM keeps i/o from competing (RAID is handled in >> mirror mode via DRBD over the network between nodes). >> >> Anyone want to tackle making a short survey for Projects to describe >> their needs and wishes? >> >> >> All ideas welcome, we'll pool it all into proposal and a wiki page >> before deciding on anything. >> >> Thanks, >> Alex > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
