On Friday 20 February 2009, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > Hi everyone, >
i can offer you a virtual server running gentoo x86_64 if thats ok. it is the highest performance o/s available and we use it exclusively. you can choose southfield michigan where our NOC and public servers are located and can choose from 4x2.4ghz amd opteron processors with 8gb ram down to 2x1.8ghz amd opteron processors with 8gb ram, or our saginaw michigan office where the best i can offer would be to run on a 32bit twin 500mhz p3 machine with 1gb ram. to be blunt, the southfield location is easier for me to set up since we are geared exclusively for virtual servers there and i have templates already set up along with 6 'spare' physical servers plus full daily backups should one go south.... the saginaw 32 bit location would take a bit more work plus the uptime reliability of saginaw is not as good as our southfield location, nor are there redundant servers or backup available. southfield is protected by a massive battery room (around 40 hrs runtime on battery alone) and full power generators where the saginaw location is protected by standard ups only which would last only about 15 min in a power outage. we had some centos virtual servers and we just got rid of the last of them. their efficiency and resource requirements dragged our servers down so far we decided not to foray into other operating systems and stick with what works best. (i can put 100 or more gentoo virtual servers on a machine than centos servers and still use the same or less resources than the centos ones did... best i could do with the centos ones was 40 servers) the boss just offered both locations if you wanted 2 of them. and if you truly require centos, i will set one up for you but then all maintenance would be on you. for our gentoo we have fully automated maintenance that only requires me to look at what is offered for update and approve it or not. full root ssh access and user ftp access is not a problem. if you 3 always come from the same ip blocks each time i can restrict access to those ip blocks making it more secure. you would ssh as an unpriv user and su to root, ftp will require use of your normal user account and then as root you can do as you will with the file. i can have a server ready for you to take over within an hour. Chuck > We could use a few more boxes to run the NTP Pool nameserver on. > Requirements: > > * 1 CPU (it's singlethreaded anyway) > * ~256MB memory (a virtual box is fine) > * CentOS 5 mildly preferred > * Root access for myself, Guillaume Filion and Robert Spier > * Very high uptime and a static IP (duh) > > It doesn't use much bandwidth. The North American servers get about > 50-70qps and the European ones between 60 and 100qps (so less than > 100Kbit/sec). > > > - ask > _______________________________________________ > timekeepers mailing list > [email protected] > https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers > -- Chuck _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
