hi guys,
Just to do a recap on things as they are w.r.t hosting setup.
At the moment we have :
1 machine doing the frontend with 2x73gb scsi disks ( C4 )
1 machine doing the storage with 2x500gb disks ( C5 )
So the plan was:
- setup a mirror for the existing storage and see how we might be able
to reduce size and footprint for the main production rpm-repo ( Steve
has offered to do this and is already setup, he's waiting on my
finishing the mirror for the storage - which finished yesterday ),
unfortunately the outage from last week was caused due to my over
aggressive dd which took down the storage machine.
- If we can get the main mirror down to 65GB or so - we can then host it
locally on the main machine, and remove the dependency on the second
machine. ( Fabian has offered to redo the setup / install on the main
machine once we are ready )
- The second machine could then become a rsync target for public mirrors
to pull from, and not impact resources on the main machine.
- w.r.t VM's - if we need to do that, the main box has 8 gigs of ram,
and dual opterons; so it could handle a few, I am just not sure we need
VM's as long as we are not doing builds on the same machine. I think the
hetzner machine that Dag has is a *much* better build host than surya
will be.
- w.r.t keysigning; thats a seperate issue and needs some level of
discussion.
- version control is a policy issue, hosting it is as close to free as
free can get, either with svn or git or Hg ( which is an easier
migration from svn, and comes with most benefits that git has for the
'average' user )
- We have space for another 2 1U machines here in the UK, so if there is
any need to buy in machines that need hosting - we can put them here.
The Guys in the DC are very open source friendly, and available 24/7
with reaction times of between 3 to 5 minutes ( its a professional DC,
not a mass hosting facility ).
Finally, Fabian has access to the guys at Coreix DC - so if I am not
around and something breaks, he can get in touch with them and ask for
attention etc. I dont want too many people on that list, but if we can
get someone from Australia on there, that would mean we get fairly good
round the clock coverage.
- KB
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