----- "Mateusz Loskot" <mate...@loskot.net> wrote: > Chris Puttick wrote: > > If anyone has a use for it, we can provide space, protected power > and > > a connection > > I used to use this machine as a part of http://buildbot.osgeo.org > farm. > It could also be used for other purposes, like live demo of > GeoServer/MapServer, nightly builds and binary packaging. > > > (probably in our new French office which has more spare bandwidth, > > but we can get it from here to France). > > Hmm, France is quite a different location than UK, but thanks for the > offer, if I won't find anything, I could ship my machine to > France, why not ;-)
>From London, Northern France is not so different to most of the UK (travel >time, weather, etc.), except the wine is cheaper... > > Not quite colo quality, but should be enough for while. > > I'd prefer to find something for a longer while :-) > Shipping 20kg across Europe several times a year may be expansive. A while meaning >1 year, no guarantees after that. > > We'd have to restrict bandwidth still, so depends what you think it > > > would need bandwidth-wise. > > Do you mean bandwidth limit or monthly transfer limit? > I'm sure 1mbps of bandwidth is enough. > Uploading/downloading data like backups can take longer > but none of these operation need to be fast for me. > Distributed building/testing is bandwidth efficient as > it does not transfer tons of MB, just a message and some reports, > plus initial checkouts and further updates from repository, of > course. Bandwidth limit of 1mbps would be no problem (said office has a 10 mbps fibre). > By the way, you could use this machine for your own purposes in the > office, though more disk-oriented than cpu-demanding ones. For > instance, > just put a disk and use it as a file server, backup server, etc. > So, the CPU time could be dedicated more to OSGeo jobs. All that sort of thing we try to do in the Oxford office - but because of that I'm not sure we can justify sparing bandwidth from there, plus major physical space constraints in the server room. > Anyway, Chris thank you for your offer, Although, let's see if there > would be option in UK. No problem. Chris ------ Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://iso26300.info for more information. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
