Fwiw Chris Haas / vendiadvertising.com has reached out, they're willing to sponsor raid(1) if my proposal is accepted. Haas is reading this mailing list, but does not wish to participate/post directly at present. (I have no prior relation, never heard of them before today)
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 22:31, Hans Henrik Bergan <divinit...@gmail.com> wrote: > i have a 40-core 128GB RAM server with 1 (and only 1) static ipv4 address > that I intend to keep around until at least 27 november 2025 (but unsure > after that), > it has more RAM/CPU than i need, and i could set up a virtual machine on > it and give VNC access to the VM in the form of > > ssh -L 9999:localhost:3389 user@ip > then point a RDP/VNC client to localhost:9999 > i can dedicate individual TCP ports to it, but not any of 22, 80, 443, > 5900, 5901, 8083, 9999, 587, 2525 > (after which i can recommend Teamviewer for a more comfortable access) > > but the server has several caveats: > - it's un-raided, rolling just a single 1TB SSD, if that SSD was to die, > everything on it would be lost, and it would probably take days to replace > the drive. > - it's located in a somewhat unstable environment, occasional power > outage, it was out on 30 june, 23 june, 27 january, and in 2021 was down on > 30 august. (it boots up and recovers automatically, but it has a reboot > time of roughly 300 seconds until ssh responds again) > - I can not offer a dedicated IP (but can offer some dedicated ports) > - May be decommissioned after 27-11-2025 > > If that sounds like a good idea, I'll want a ssh public key. > > > On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 15:38, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> > wrote: > >> On 11.07.2022 at 21:04, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote: >> >> > Any of you windows.php.net guys familiar with SSH? Can one be created? >> >> That would be possible (needed to be set-up by Alex Schoenmaker), but >> while that could solve the upload issue, it wouldn't solve the other >> issue I've mentioned, namely that we need to avoid dynamically linking >> against incompatible versions of dependencies. And there is yet another >> issue, namely security. I think these issues can only be solved by some >> central place where the packages are build. >> >> > On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 19:52, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> >> wrote: >> > >> >> On 11.07.2022 at 18:53, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote: >> >> >> >>> Is there any SSH public key associated with the Windows php >> developers? >> >> Or >> >>> with CMB? >> >> >> >> No. At least not regarding windows.php.net. >> >> >> >>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 18:25, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> On 11.07.2022 at 17:41, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>>> Do you mean it is unlikely that Github Actions will suffice? because >> >> that >> >>>>> would definitely be a great solution if it was possible/feasible . >> >>>> >> >>>> No. It is only unlikely that automated uploads to window.php.net >> will >> >>>> ever be possible using GH actions. >> >>>> >> >>>>> Anyway, with regards to "I don't think there are special >> requirements >> >>>>> regarding the hardware", can you give a rough estimate on RAM/disk >> >> space >> >>>>> requirements? >> >>>> >> >>>> The old machine had something like 4 or 8 GB RAM, and a 128 GB hard >> >> disk. >> >>>> >> >>> >> >> >> > >> >>