On Thursday, 26 October 2023 20:28:10 AEDT Jade Ambrose via luv-main wrote: > I'm setting up a non-profit community web hosting organisation in Merri-bek > (the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne). The intent is to setup a few > local sever racks, ideally powered by renewables, at a couple of different > community facilities, and to provide hosting of common open source software > for local organisations (who might need wikis, groupware, CMSs, etc) and > individuals (who might need email, mastadon, pixelfed, etc).
How many organisations are interested in such hosting? A few racks is a lot of compute power nowadays. The LUV VM, a VM running a mail server for about 100 users, and a small web server, and a VM running some other web servers and a list server are all running on one of the older Hetzner servers with the only limitation being storage space. If you got a somewhat old server (say Dell PowerEdge T320 or R720) loaded with RAM and SSDs and put all the database servers in Dom0 then you could run a lot of VMs with decent performance. Are you planning on some sort of Ceph cluster or something? That would justify a few locations. 2 locations is good for monitoring, is someone planning to get alerts 24*7? > 1. Mentors. I have five of us already, but I'd love a few more experienced > technologists to be in our mentoring group, able to answer questions from > our volunteers in a way that helps them build problem solving skills (so, > always doing it for them, but pointing them in the right direction). These > mentors don't need to live in Merri-bek. I can help with mentoring. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
