-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody! During the GSoC mentor summit I talked with noy about our funds and if a new/upgraded/better server would be possible. The basic conclusion we reached was that we really want a significantly stronger machine. One of the reasons for this is that the current box, an Intel Core2Duo E6750 @2.66GHz with 5GB ram and a rather small harddrive is currently running out of capacity. Another reason for a possible switch of the server provider is that the current system is rather crashy as you can see in the amount of reboots we face.
The reason for this mail is simple: I wanted to ask you what your current needs and requirements as well as the expected future requirements are. Beside this can you recommend a server provider which has affordable prices? Currently we pay about 150$ per month for our hosting and the absolute maximum we can afford is somewhere at 200$ per month (though less would of course be better). I already pinged Rhonda and Soliton about a possible new server [1] and Rhonda recommended looking at [2] for a new system since the specs and prices look fine. The software requirements the server should be able to handle: * Linux server (Debian preferred ;) ) with root access * host for forum (phpbb), wiki (mediawiki) and static websites (apache; unit trees, add-on web access, ...) * host for several add-on server (one per stable series since ??? plus one for dev/trunk) * host for several multiplayer server (one per stable series since 1.6 plus dev and trunk) * host for irssi for at least some devs (e.g. Soliton is running an irssi instance on wesnoth.org IIRC) * lots of space for replays (currently we use >100GB only for replays!) * ability to run scripts regularly (e.g. gettext update and unit website generation) We are currently already relying on swap usage on wesnoth.org, so more than 5GB ram sounds reasonable to me. What I currently think would be sane minimum specs: * quadcore cpu * >=8GB ram * >=1TB persistent storage e.g. for replays * 2 harddrives so that we can at least have some local backups (currently we got a 160GB harddrive for backups) Optional but possibly sane: * ssd for IO intense parts like the mysql database used for forums and wiki * more cpu cores, drive space and ram * >1 server, possibly one in the EU and one in the US (depends on costs and if we really have a usecase for the extra server) If you know of further requirements and might have a more detailed list of specs we need, please reply to this mail. The same applies if you can offer some feedback regarding the server provider and their reliability. Cheers, Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic [1] http://wesnoth.org/irclogs/2012/10/%23wesnoth-dev.2012-10-23.log [2] https://www.server4you.de/root-server/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCL0RsACgkQfFda9thizwXEvwCcCUrREqkJFdZFnYmxOpwt6IOy sUgAnjg7B0+fh37Ivl4vaJxcFM4seCJO =o2Bt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
