Am 14.10.2016 um 05:55 schrieb Neo Love: >> * We buy additional HDDs every year and continue to host them ourselves >> just next to the newer ISOs. > > Sounds right to me.. HDDs are not too expensive. > I'm willing to pitch in, despite my decrepit pension. > > Speaking of which, maybe we could all pitch in to build a new buildserver? > I built my latest workstation for just over 500 euro. > (Xeon E3 3.1GHz, 16 GB RAM, 2x1 TB HDD)
Having additional servers is not a problem of hardware costs, but of hosting and logistics. Our critical services are all hosted on dedicated servers at a decent hosting provider. These servers handle standard tasks very well. But as soon as we have special requirements (e.g. lots of RAM, HDD space or multiple physical servers for VM testing), it is impossible or too expensive. Therefore, we also bought some specialized servers. They have always been hosted in countries where electricity and fast internet connections are cheap and where we have a project member to take care of them. But as you can imagine, this can never match the availability of a real hosting provider. In the next few days, I'm expecting some more servers to be set up at our project member's location. If that turns out well, we can think about getting additional storage for them. I'm still open for alternative/failover hosting solutions though as this shouldn't depend on a single location and person. - Colin _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
