Re: [libreoffice-website] updated infrastructure calculation

Has colocation been considered for a NAS which is bought and owned by the
TDF?

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Florian Effenberger <
floeff@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the original plan (before the hardware sponsoring for next year was at the
> horizon) was to move the backup, databases and data to a storage, i.e. a
> machine with lots of hard disks and fast I/O, that is automatically
> mirrored to a second machine.
>
> So, the normal servers would only contain software like the web server,
> but any data is read from the storage, making it easier to scale and
> migrate "frontend servers".
>
> Given that we might move to a different hoster by next summer or so,
> because of a generous sponsoring offer, I think it's not worthwhile to
> invest for this period of time. Rather, we should upgrade our current
> infrastructure to the same hard- and software, killing current bottlenecks,
> and then have a stable platform to migrate again in summer.
>
> Right now, any of the servers listed has between 750 GB (EQ models) and 3
> TB (EX models) of storage. The new machine we might get sponsored can be
> scaled from one to eight hard disks, which gives us more flexibility than
> we have now.
>
> However, remember, since all hardware is rented (which is *much* cheaper,
> even over a long period of time), we cannot just buy any NAS on the market,
> but rather need to take what the ISP offers. So, even if there was a good
> NAS vendor, we cannot use its products if the ISP does not offer it. We
> also need to consider that the NAS should be in the same datacenter as the
> servers. Otherwise, we risk traffic payments. We have 15 TB free per month
> and server, but if all backups are on external machines, that will be
> exhausted quite fast.
>
> Florian
>
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