Hi Bryce, The details look good to me.
Martin, On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 07:31 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi all, > > As mentioned at one of the recent board meetings, I'm going to send > out > a request next week for sponsors to provide hosting services for us. > Below is the initial draft of the request, which I'd appreciate your > feedback on. > > I've collected a list of places to send it, and will also post to > inkscape-announce@ and inkscape-devel@. If you can think of > additional > places, please let me know. > > Bryce > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > == Would you be interested in hosting Inkscape as a sponsor? == > > Inkscape is seeking to improve its online service hosting. To this > end > we're soliciting proposals for donation/sponsorship of hosting > services > for the project. > > The Inkscape Project is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization > that > develops and maintains the popular Inkscape vector drawing software, > provided freely to millions of artists, designers, and other drawers > of > lines. > > If you would be interested in sponsoring us through a donation of > hosting service, we would be happy to add you to our sponsors page, > with > a mention & link on our main website's footer. Proposals can be sent > to > me as contact point. Our sysadmin team will review them and make a > recommendation to the Inkscape board, who will make the final > determination in about a month's time. > > > == Background == > > We currently have various services hosted at a number of different > locations with widely varying administrative capacities. We wish to > consolidate these services to one platform where they can be > centrally > administered. > > Services high on our priority list to migrate soon include mailing > lists, Mattermost, and wiki. Bug tracking, web forum and gitlab are > potential secondary priorities. Our Django-based main website may > also > be worth consolidating at some point in the future. > > Ideally we'd like two distinct hosts, with one serving as primary and > the other as a backup/spare, preferrably in geographically distinct > areas (e.g. Europe and Canada). > > > == Requirements == > > Minimum Desired > Required Ideal > CPU: dual core quad core > RAM: 4 gb 256 gb > Storage: 500GB >1 TB (HW RAID-1) > HDD SDD > Bandwidth: 1 TB/mo 2 TB/mo > OS: Any linux Ubuntu 16.04 > > > * We prefer an actual machine (metal) rather than virtual hosting. > > * UPS power backup > > * 24h support at the datacenter -- A hardware technician would need > to > be available for handling hardware issues, to do OS > installation/reinstallation, hook up KVM/IP if available, and to > investigate faults that can't be diagnosed remotely. > > * Server would be under the administrative and technical management > of > the Inkscape admin team (about 6-8 people). We would have root > access > to the machine for doing system updates and to install/configure > software and services. > > * We expect to be managing/maintaining our software ourselves. Items > we > anticipate migrating to this include (in rough order of priority): > > + Mailman3 > + Mattermost > + Wiki (mediawiki currently) > + Forum (e.g. hosting for inkscapeforum.com) > + Bug tracker (TBD) > + Gitlab > + Other project management tools > + Website / Django > > * Inkscape does not handle anything particularly controversial. No > copyright infringing materials, nothing political, nothing > intentionally offensive. Our windows binary has been false- > positived > by virus software in the past, but we clear this up ourselves. > > * Currently our website hosting is sponsored and managed by OSUOSL. > It's a root access virtual machine running postgresql, memcached, > nginx and the django site itself. Memory usage is 450MiB per web > host > thread, currently 2 threads, plus 500MB for postgresql and 500MB > for > memcache. CDN is hosted by Fastly, currently serving 32TB per > month > for Inkscape (1:1.5 ratio US:EU, so more EU hits overall). There's > enough dynamic content that we still see a decent load (1/2 TB/mo) > on > the server, notably around major releases (once every year or two); > we > are continuously tweaking optimizations. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
