So, I think that this is probably fine for a first try. But I'm concerned that we're limiting our pool of potential sponsors saying that everything has to be on one machine, thus making that machine much more powerful. If we can get it, great, I'm not sure if we should detail a little more of a plan B having multiple sponsors or a set of smaller instances somewhere (asking for metal seems like asking someone to live in 1990).
Ted On 09/21/2017 09:31 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi all, > > As mentioned at one of the recent board meetings, I'm going to send out > a request next week for sponsors to provide hosting services for us. > Below is the initial draft of the request, which I'd appreciate your > feedback on. > > I've collected a list of places to send it, and will also post to > inkscape-announce@ and inkscape-devel@. If you can think of additional > places, please let me know. > > Bryce > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > == Would you be interested in hosting Inkscape as a sponsor? == > > Inkscape is seeking to improve its online service hosting. To this end > we're soliciting proposals for donation/sponsorship of hosting services > for the project. > > The Inkscape Project is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization that > develops and maintains the popular Inkscape vector drawing software, > provided freely to millions of artists, designers, and other drawers of > lines. > > If you would be interested in sponsoring us through a donation of > hosting service, we would be happy to add you to our sponsors page, with > a mention & link on our main website's footer. Proposals can be sent to > me as contact point. Our sysadmin team will review them and make a > recommendation to the Inkscape board, who will make the final > determination in about a month's time. > > > == Background == > > We currently have various services hosted at a number of different > locations with widely varying administrative capacities. We wish to > consolidate these services to one platform where they can be centrally > administered. > > Services high on our priority list to migrate soon include mailing > lists, Mattermost, and wiki. Bug tracking, web forum and gitlab are > potential secondary priorities. Our Django-based main website may also > be worth consolidating at some point in the future. > > Ideally we'd like two distinct hosts, with one serving as primary and > the other as a backup/spare, preferrably in geographically distinct > areas (e.g. Europe and Canada). > > > == Requirements == > > Minimum Desired > Required Ideal > CPU: dual core quad core > RAM: 4 gb 256 gb > Storage: 500GB >1 TB (HW RAID-1) > HDD SDD > Bandwidth: 1 TB/mo 2 TB/mo > OS: Any linux Ubuntu 16.04 > > > * We prefer an actual machine (metal) rather than virtual hosting. > > * UPS power backup > > * 24h support at the datacenter -- A hardware technician would need to > be available for handling hardware issues, to do OS > installation/reinstallation, hook up KVM/IP if available, and to > investigate faults that can't be diagnosed remotely. > > * Server would be under the administrative and technical management of > the Inkscape admin team (about 6-8 people). We would have root access > to the machine for doing system updates and to install/configure > software and services. > > * We expect to be managing/maintaining our software ourselves. Items we > anticipate migrating to this include (in rough order of priority): > > + Mailman3 > + Mattermost > + Wiki (mediawiki currently) > + Forum (e.g. hosting for inkscapeforum.com) > + Bug tracker (TBD) > + Gitlab > + Other project management tools > + Website / Django > > * Inkscape does not handle anything particularly controversial. No > copyright infringing materials, nothing political, nothing > intentionally offensive. Our windows binary has been false-positived > by virus software in the past, but we clear this up ourselves. > > * Currently our website hosting is sponsored and managed by OSUOSL. > It's a root access virtual machine running postgresql, memcached, > nginx and the django site itself. Memory usage is 450MiB per web host > thread, currently 2 threads, plus 500MB for postgresql and 500MB for > memcache. CDN is hosted by Fastly, currently serving 32TB per month > for Inkscape (1:1.5 ratio US:EU, so more EU hits overall). There's > enough dynamic content that we still see a decent load (1/2 TB/mo) on > the server, notably around major releases (once every year or two); we > are continuously tweaking optimizations. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
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