Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> writes:
> On 2018-09-03, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> - We need to be able to restart the machine remotely. If members of the >> Guix project have no physical access to the hosting site, this can be >> done via remote-controlled power supply or similar. >> >> We are looking for volunteers who could either host a machine at home or >> in a data centre that they could get emergency access to. >> >> One system that looks promising for co-location is the Softiron >> Overdrive 3000 (a rack-mounted ARM server.) A system suitable for >> hosting at home is the Softiron Overdrive 1000. If you know of other >> machines that would be suitable for our purposes, please let us know! > > For what it's worth, in my experience I don't think the Overdrive 1000 > can be remotely power-cycled without physical button-pushing, at least > out of the box... maybe there's a workaround or getting a power supply > that somehow supports this... The two Overdrive 1000 machines that we have are currently hosted by volunteers in their homes, so this is not generally a problem for us in practice. It would be inconvenient for co-location hosting, though. -- Ricardo
