Has colocation been considered for a NAS which is bought and owned by the TDF?
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Florian Effenberger < [email protected]> wrote: > 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<http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > website+help@global.**libreoffice.org<website%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/**website/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Jonathan Aquilina -- 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
