Hey folks,

I discussed the situation with the Secure Computer Systems labe here at
Stanford, and we would be very happy to host a Hackage mirror here at
the university.  We have a decent chunk of bandwidth.

Cheers,
Edward

Excerpts from Jason Dagit's message of 2013-11-16 23:43:20 -0800:
> An update:
> 
> > Dear client,
> > 
> > Your server didn't show a video output and didn't respond to any keystrokes.
> > We have performed a BIOS update, replaced the complete RAM on suspicion of 
> > defect
> > and boote your server back to the local system.
> > 
> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards
> 
> I received that around 10:51 PM PST (UTC -8).
> 
> Several of us had a discussion about this on IRC and some of the highlights 
> that I recall from that:
>   * OSUOSL and rackspace are good alternative data centers
>   * We should definitely set up mirrors/fallback servers for critical bits 
> (mail server, ghc.haskell.org, hackage.haskell.org)
>   * We still don't know the actual cause here. What if it's software?
>   * In an ideal world, we would use something like ansible to store our 
> configuration so that bringing up new hosts (or moving data centers) is much 
> easier.
> 
> In my opinion, it's worth sticking with rock at hetzner for now to see if 
> their changes make a difference. At the same time, I think we should make it 
> a priority to bring up redundant servers at the alternatives 
> (osuosl/rackspace).
> 
> On Nov 16, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Gershom Bazerman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > As you may all have noticed, haskell.org is down again. We've contacted 
> > them to actually investigate this time rather than just sending a reboot 
> > request. But that's meant that we're staying down for the moment. I 
> > guess worst-case-scenario tomorrow we just do the reboot to be back in 
> > shape for monday.
> > 
> > Our experiences with hetzner have not been great lately, and I've heard 
> > bad experiences now from other members of the haskell community as well 
> > as elsewhere (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6577465).
> > 
> > I was directed to the osu open source lab which provides hosting gratis 
> > to lots of big projects [including spi itself] (http://osuosl.org/about) 
> > and took it on myself to contact them to discuss hosting options for 
> > some or all of our infrastructure. Migrating again will of course be 
> > some work, but it could potentially buy us both stability and cheaper 
> > hosting. They haven't even gotten back to me yet, so I'm not currently 
> > proposing we do anything in particular, but I want to point out the option.
> > 
> > Additionally, we have now, I believe, "bought out" ownership of abbot, 
> > though it still resides at galois. We could potentially move it to the 
> > osuosl and take the burden of hosting it from galois, potentially 
> > bringing it back into rotation as an active server.
> > 
> > Anyway, just wanted to fill folks in on the latest and solicit a round 
> > of ideas/thoughts.
> > 
> > Thanks, as always, to Austin, for actually being the point-person with 
> > hetzner.
> > 
> > --Gershom
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