Hi,
the original plan (before the hardware sponsoring for next year was at
the horizon) was to move the backup, databases and data to a storage,
i.e. a machine with lots of hard disks and fast I/O, that is
automatically mirrored to a second machine.
So, the normal servers would only contain software like the web server,
but any data is read from the storage, making it easier to scale and
migrate "frontend servers".
Given that we might move to a different hoster by next summer or so,
because of a generous sponsoring offer, I think it's not worthwhile to
invest for this period of time. Rather, we should upgrade our current
infrastructure to the same hard- and software, killing current
bottlenecks, and then have a stable platform to migrate again in summer.
Right now, any of the servers listed has between 750 GB (EQ models) and
3 TB (EX models) of storage. The new machine we might get sponsored can
be scaled from one to eight hard disks, which gives us more flexibility
than we have now.
However, remember, since all hardware is rented (which is *much*
cheaper, even over a long period of time), we cannot just buy any NAS on
the market, but rather need to take what the ISP offers. So, even if
there was a good NAS vendor, we cannot use its products if the ISP does
not offer it. We also need to consider that the NAS should be in the
same datacenter as the servers. Otherwise, we risk traffic payments. We
have 15 TB free per month and server, but if all backups are on external
machines, that will be exhausted quite fast.
Florian
--
Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board (Vorstandsvorsitzender)
Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108
The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
--
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected]
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
