Ciao, here's an update on the current status of the 2nd server:
☞ We've been planning for a long time to acquire a new server to be used for developer shell accounts, git repositories and other services; ☞ We've been blocked on offers of free harware from several different parties, that did not materialize in practice; ☞ During Saturday's infrastructure meeting at Sugarcamp, we decided to go on and buy a new machine with donations of individuals; ☞ Donations: the same day we raised $1600 among the people present. We still need to raise some $400-500, but I'm confident enough to anticipate the expense personally. We are waiting for the SFC to tell us what bank account we can use; ☞ Hardware: I'm oriented towards an HP ProLiant DL180 G5. It's a 2U with 8 3.5" SATA/SAS bays and quad core Xeon. All for $1200 + memory + disks. To save on costs, we'll get 2x1TB 7200RPM SATA drives and only 2 or 4GB of RAM; ☞ Hosting: I asked Media Lab, OSU/OSL, Novell and the FSF for rack space and bandwidth in a stable environment. We need physical access to the machine room and friendly local sysadmins who can promise to help us in case of any trouble; ☞ Gitorious: we decided to use http://www.gitorious.org/ to easily scale to a large number of repositories and users. I've set it up this week-end on my development machine and it seems to run nicely; ☞ I'm setting up KVM virtual machines for Gitorious and for shells. If the performance seems acceptable, the physical machine will only host VMs for improved security and manageability; ☞ Any suggestions/help appreciated, except if it would delay much more the plan. We have been waiting way too long for such a small thing, and I'd like to place the order this week if possible; ☞ You might be wondering why such a subject... well, honeypot.sugarlabs.org is the domain name I expect to use for this machine unless someone comes up with a better idea :-) -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
