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<H1>[Mageia-sysadm] New hardware for mageia servers</H1>
<B>andre999</B>
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<I>Sun Oct 2 06:53:51 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
><i> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 19:24, nicolas vigier<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>> wrote:
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</I>>><i> Total: 2 261 euros
</I>>><i> So total is quite expensive.
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That was my first reaction ... But then I thought WAIT, this isn't a
typical consumer or small business application ...
><i> Provided the role these hardware will play, this looks still rather
</I>><i> cheap on the contrary. There may be alternatives but this doesn't look
</I>><i> that expensive.
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Agreed.
>><i> An other solution could be to buy a cheap
</I>>><i> computer that one of us keep at home/office, doing remote backups.
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</I>><i> That's an option too, either way (with or without the above).
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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.
...
>><i> - server for packagers, to host VMs used to test package builds. This
</I>>><i> needs to be a fast server, with a lot of RAM. Should we buy an
</I>>><i> expensive server for this now ? Or wait until we have more money, or
</I>>><i> someone donate a server for this ? Or rent a server at 60 euros /
</I>>><i> month on online.net ?
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://www.online.net/serveur-dedie/offre-dedibox-pro-r210.xhtml">http://www.online.net/serveur-dedie/offre-dedibox-pro-r210.xhtml</A>
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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.)
>><i> Any comments about this ?
</I>>><i>
</I>><i> We should not wait but do with what we have, and tell about it, and
</I>><i> remind regularly where we are in our budget (what's missing, what's
</I>><i> needed, etc.) and how we can grow it. Once the ball is rolling, it's
</I>><i> easier to find people willing to help it roll even further.
</I>><i>
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Good point.
><i> Cheers,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Romain
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My 2 cents :)
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André
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