Quoting Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 19:28:06 -0700, > David White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Until recently we were hosting many of our services on Jexiste. Recently >> we have switched to ibiblio. However, each of these services have >> various limitations that makes them problematic: > > It sounds like it might still be nice to use ibiblio for high bandwidth > relatively constant stuff. Can they be a proxy for another web server > so that they keep the constant stuff local and hit the real web server > just for dynamic stuff.
What relatively constant stuff? The only static stuff that we have are downloads of the game and they are hosted reliably at Sourceforge. > >> Because of this, I've had discussions with Ivanovic and Mist, and we >> feel that it may be time to consider trying to fund our own server. >> >> After some research, we have found that for about 90 euros/month, or >> $150US/month, we should be able to obtain a dedicated server with a dual >> core CPU, 2GB of memory, and a 100Mb connection. We feel that such a >> server would be sufficient to run all of the above listed services. > > That sounds pretty reasonable. I assume that the 100Mb is a 100 megabit per > second burst speed? What kinds of aggregate traffic costs are involved there? > (I would be shocked if you can get 100Mb/s 24x7 for the above price.) Generally there are places that advertise unlimited. I don't know if they'd start to get annoyed etc if you constantly used this much traffic though. > >> We will get $500 for each student who participates in the Summer of >> Code, but that is not for some time. We could ask people to donate money >> to the cause. I suspect we could raise maybe $500-$700 with this >> approach. Finally, we could advertise, but it would likely take a while >> to raise money using this approach. > > Donations may not be reliable. Ads might work if you can set up a fire > and forget system for using them. If handling donations and/or ads > ends up being a big time sink for someone it may not be a good way to go. > >> I would be willing to initially finance at least some part of it, as >> long as there was some plan to repay me the money, possibly through >> advertising. >> >> Any thoughts? Any other ideas? Anyone who has a nice big juicy server >> sitting on a rack ready to go and wants to donate it to us? :-) > > I would think that a virtual server would be adequate for the project and we > would probably be more likely to get one of those donated than a > complete piece > of hardware. I don't think a virtual server is really going to be sufficient to host MySQL + the forum frontend + the Wiki + wesnothd + the add-on server + stats.wesnoth.org. That is a lot of software, and it takes significant resources. David _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
