Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Hi guys, > > The LFS server recently passed its five year mark. While there are still > no indications yet of hardware problems or degraded performance due to > aging components yet, I've started to pro-actively look at options to > replace the server. After all, it's better to be pro-active than > reactive in these cases. > > A second reason for doing this is that the server is currently > co-located in Calgary, AB, Canada but I myself don't live near Calgary > anymore. A couple of months ago I moved to Winnipeg, MB. If anything > were to happen to the server now, I'd have to fly out to Calgary to deal > with it. I'm sure I don't have to explain the issues with that. > > I'm looking at two ways of dealing with the LFS server: > > 1) Acquire a new server and co-locate it here in Winnipeg. > 2) Turn the LFS server into a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with some > company which won't be restricted to Winnipeg in that situation because > we wouldn't be responsible for the hardware. > > I'm awaiting responses from a couple of companies in Winnipeg that offer > co-location services. When I have all the numbers I'll put together a > financial picture for both options and go from there. > > Regardless of the option chosen, there will be a period of migration > where we move services from the current server to the new one. It > shouldn't cause too many headaches in terms of outages and extended > downtime. It won't be 100% unavoidable either so this will just serve as > a head's up that it'll be coming down the pipe soon. > > This period of time where we discuss migrations would be a good time for > us to discuss any wholesome changes we might like to implement. We can > start off with a new server and a clean slate instead of blindly > replicating the current setup and methods without any thought to it. > > As always I'm open to any and all suggestions regarding both the server > itself and the aforementioned potential changes that could be implemented.
anduin.linuxfromscratch.org is hosted by Server Beach. I did get a special deal so it costs about $50/month, but I never have to physically touch it. The tricky part of a remote system is building a LFS system remotely and then being able to boot into it. They do have a way to get to a virtual system where an arbitrary partition can be mounted and corrections made to fix a boot problem. I have some contacts with Rackspace too. They are headquartered here in San Antonio and they host the SATLUG server (www.satlug.org) for free. That system is physically in Dallas and I never touch it either. I could make some inquiries to see if LFS could get the same deal. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
