[Mageia-sysadm] New hardware for mageia servers

Sun Oct 2 06:53:51 CEST 2011

Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 19:24, nicolas vigier<boklm at mars-attacks.org>  wrote:
+>    
+>>   Total: 2 261 euros
+>>   So total is quite expensive.
+>>      
+
+That was my first reaction ...  But then I thought WAIT, this isn't a 
+typical consumer or small business application ...
+
+> Provided the role these hardware will play, this looks still rather
+> cheap on the contrary. There may be alternatives but this doesn't look
+> that expensive.
+>    
+
+Agreed.
+
+>> An other solution could be to buy a cheap
+>>   computer that one of us keep at home/office, doing remote backups.
+>>      
+> That's an option too, either way (with or without the above).
+>    
+
+We should have off-site backup, in case of a disaster at the centre.  At 
+least for critical info.
+If someone has to go to the centre, or we have to spend a lot of time 
+downloading, at least we will have an up-to-date backup if it is remote.
+I'd say that good quality disks and a UPS is important.
+A cheap box that someone keeps at home/office seems workable, as long as 
+there is a fast Internet connexion for restores.
+Keeping occasional local backups at the centre, combined with up-to-date 
+remote backups would be a good idea.
+So normally in the case of failure, we rsync the local backup with the 
+remote for quick recovery, but in the case of a disaster, we still have 
+everything remote.
+All that impacts on our hardware decisions.
+
+...
+>> - server for packagers, to host VMs used to test package builds. This
+>>   needs to be a fast server, with a lot of RAM. Should we buy an
+>>   expensive server for this now ? Or wait until we have more money, or
+>>   someone donate a server for this ? Or rent a server at 60 euros /
+>>   month on online.net ?
+>>   http://www.online.net/serveur-dedie/offre-dedibox-pro-r210.xhtml
+>>      
+
+My bias is that buying is better than renting, if we can.
+(In a year or two the rental would have paid the cost of buying.)
+
+>> Any comments about this ?
+>>      
+> We should not wait but do with what we have, and tell about it, and
+> remind regularly where we are in our budget (what's missing, what's
+> needed, etc.) and how we can grow it. Once the ball is rolling, it's
+> easier to find people willing to help it roll even further.
+>    
+
+Good point.
+
+> Cheers,
+>
+> Romain
+>    
+
+My 2 cents :)
+
+-- 
+André
+
+