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 > > _______________________________________________ > > haskell-infrastructure mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://community.galois.com/mailman/listinfo/haskell-infrastructure _______________________________________________ haskell-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://community.galois.com/mailman/listinfo/haskell-infrastructure
