Those are good question Russell. Genuinely I have no idea how many organisations are interested. If it was a business idea or something, I'd do some market research first. Since it's a community project, and I'm just going to go ahead and do it anyway, there's no real need to know much in advance. However, when I say, "a few racks", I really mean that because servers will be in community facilities open to other people, they will need to be in lockable cabinets, and those might as well be racks (12RU or something, not massive). I wouldn't imagine filling them, in fact I've already been donated 5RUs of severs and that should probably do us for the time being.
As for what we're planning technology wise, I'm genuinely not sure. Current technologies used include terraform and ansible. I don't have any idea yet for how we manage hardware lifecycle, or virtual machines (presuming we use them). I have no plan yet for monitoring, and very little plan for backups. So, lots of interesting problems to solve, and I think it'll be more interesting to try and build a cohort of volunteers to learn about each area and solve the problems (with guidance from mentors) than it will be for me to have a solution ready. Thanks for the offer of mentoring, I'll reach out to you about that privately. Jade On Sat, Oct 28, 2023, at 11:33 PM, Russell Coker wrote: > 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/ > > > >
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