Hi all!
This is a draft of a plea for a new server for Hamakor. Your comments are
welcome.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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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.
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On the other hand beak, which is a new Pentium 4 server with more RAM has a
huge hard-disk space problem:
{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 3421584 2463168 958416 72% /
tmpfs 257956 0 257956 0% /dev/shm
/dev/md1 133527952 130207836 3320116 98% /srv
}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
However, upgrading its hard-disks (which must be SCSI) would be costy
until we could use a new server.
We would like to merge both servers into a new one that will be the
host. We are already moving our mirrors to ISOC, but need a server for
providing the web-services, the email, DNS and so forth.
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Here's what we need:
1. The board and the processor should have a maximum memory of at least
8-12 GB.
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.
6. A CD-drive, a few USB connectors, etc. Possibly a way to plug-in a
USB drive will suffice.
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, and require a lot of
mainteance.
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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 servers for a school or
something similar.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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