[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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