On Sunday 22 April 2007, Dotan Mazor wrote:
> Hello Shlomi and all,
>
>
> Does anyone has an estimate, as for the cost of such a server?
>
I don't know.
But I suggest that Hamakor will not pay for it out of its own money, but
rather make a public plea for donation of such server. I phrased this plea in
English, the best as I could (I will later revise it), but I suggest one of
the board will post it.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
>
> Dotan Mazor
>
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Hi board an everybody!
> >
> > Attention board: please treat this message as sent directly to the board,
> > as it is very important.
> >
> > Everybody please comment.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Shlomi Fish
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Eskimo (known to the world as iglu.org.il) is a multi-purpose server of
> > the Israeli Free and Open Source Software community. Not to be confused
> > with beak (= hamakor.org.il), Eskimo is used for E-mail, for
> > web-services, for ssh and for other purposes.
> >
> > At the moment, we have two problems with Eskimo:
> >
> > 1. Our low-end IDE disk that was bought to be used by the mirrors, is
> > giving us many hardware problems.
> >
> > 2. The machine (a Compaq ProLiant 500 machine) tends to be very slow for
> > today's demanding load. Plus, the board has a maximal RAM of 1 GB which
> > is becoming hardly enough. While it is a good machine and can be re-used
> > as a server in a different context, we would like to upgrade to a machine
> > with better specs.
> >
> > Note that we cannot merge Eskimo with beak because:
> >
> > 1. They have different admins with different philosophies.
> >
> > 2. Merging them at this point would be very difficult.
> >
> > 3. They provide some redundancy against a single point of failure.
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Here's what we need:
> >
> > 1. The board and the processor should have a maximum memory of at least
> > 64 GB. I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure 4 GB will not be enough for long,
> > and would rather think ahead.
> >
> > 2. Any architecture would do - Intel Xeon, x86-64, UltraSPARC, Power,
> > etc.
> >
> > 3. We are going to run Debian GNU/Linux on it, as that's what Eskimo is
> > running at the moment, and what Beak runs there as well.
> >
> > 4. One processor would be fine.
> >
> > 5. Hard disk - I think we need at least 500 GB, in several disks. One
> > small disk (about 40 GB will do I believe - possibly more) for the root
> > partitions, and 500 GB for storage. Possibly even more than 500 GB,
> > because our mirrors are accumulating more and more data.
> >
> > 6. A CD-drive, a place to plug in a USB disk, etc.
> >
> > 7. The server needs to be a high-end server. Low-end computers that are
> > sold for desktops, etc. tend to not last too long.
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> >
> > If anyone would be willing to donate us a nice server or pool some money
> > for it, we would highly appreciate it. We will use the old server for a
> > school or something similar.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Shlomi Fish
> >
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> > Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/
> >
> > If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying
> > one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer.
> > -- An Israeli Linuxer
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Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying
one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer.
-- An Israeli Linuxer
