[H-ADMIN] Excalibur Hosting
Robert Brockway
robert at timetraveller.org
Thu Oct 1 05:21:09 EDT 2009
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Russell Stuart wrote:
> Russell Stuart here, newly elected president of Humbug and acting with
> that hat on.
Hi Russell. Congratulations btw.
> We had a discussion at the last Humbug meeting regarding hosting of
> Excalibur. It was raised by me. I had seen your posts on Sage-AU, and
> was very concerned that Humbug was burdening someone who was likely
> going to be unemployed with paying for Excalibur's hosting. I think it
Thanks for the concern but I'll be going from job to job so there won't be
a period of unemployment - infact I might not even get a holiday even
though I'd really like one ;)
The funding for excalibur is really coming from my personal company (see
below).
> This email it to tell you the options we looked at, and ask you for your
> preference, is any.
>
> 1. As I think you are aware, Netbox Blue has suggested they might be
> willing to host a VM for us for free. This hasn't happened yet,
> primarily because of slackness on my and Jerub's part.
I remember when this was first proposed. I think it is a great idea.
Infact excalibur was only really meant to be an interrim measure until
this became a reality.
James Iseppi indicated that Linux Australia may be able to provide a
virtual box for free. I think this should be investigated even if Netbox
Blue provides a box.
> 2. Humbug could just purchase a VM somewhere and move to it, abandoning
> the one we have. This was at one stage the most popular option at the
> meeting.
Some of the cheaper options you mentioned on irc a few weeks ago were
interesting.
> 3. You could hand over the "keys" to the current VM to us. Concerns
> were raised about how whether that was in fact even possible. Maybe
It is. I created a seperate account in the Linode system and created
excalibur there - so excalibur isn't tied to my other Linode systems at
all.
I'd like someone else to have access to the Linode management system for
excalibur anyway. I just checked and my credit card details are not
listed there.
> In the end a compromise was reached. I proposed the Exec give me till
> the next Exec meeting (Sat, 14-11-2009) to get the box moved to free
> hosting. If that deadline isn't reached the Exec will move it to paid
> hosting. That still leaves the choice between options (2) and (3) above
> of course. Should we reach that point, what option would you prefer?
My personal company (OpenTrend Solutions) allocates a certain amount of
money to use in support of OSS and that is where the funding for excalibur
is coming from. If I get a reimbusement from Humbug then the money will
go somewhere else to support OSS (probably SPI). Thus I'm happy for
Humbug to _not_ reimburse OpenTrend Solutions at this stage.
Cheers,
Rob
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