Website + Mirror for Yoper Linux at osuosl.org

[Tobias Gerschner]

Good Afternoon,

The team from Yoper Linux ( yoper-linux.org ) is looking for ways to
improve its online presence. We have a dedicated server at Hetzner in
Germany that I fully fund. It is our main work horse doing everything
from websites , main mirror and build server for software packages.

However we can not afford to take the rather expensive options for a
reliable backup of databases etc. This has cost us dearly 2 months
back in loosing all our websites due to a faulty hard drive which
slowly corrupted our database backups. To prevent that from happening
again we're looking for a small VM to host the websites
www.yoper-linux.org, wiki.yoper-linux.org and forums.yoper-linux.org
with currently about 50GB of storage space to also have nightly
backups of the most important scripts / configuration that are part of
the online framework of Yoper Linux.

Just to clarify the nature of the Yoper Linux project. It's a 100 %
open source project and there are no commercial entities involved. The
founder of Yoper Linux attempted to setup a business a couple of years
back, but it never did any commercial trading. Yoper Linux as it
exists now and for the last couple of years is a true community
project.

Personally I am covering any current operational expenses of Yoper
Linux ( ~ 100 USD per month ) due to the lack of a transparent fund
management process. I actually had to turn down donation offers
because of the high transaction cost involved. If we were to get
hosting space at osuosl.org we'd be looking at setting up a
transparent donation / fund management process and primarily pass on
donations to osuosl.org . An educated guess judging from the past I'd
estimate the annual donations to be ~ 500 USD.

We'd like to keep this discussion as open as possible so please
include our dev-list in your response.

Kind Regards

On behalf of the Yoper Team

--
Tobias Gerschner
Yoper Linux - www.yoper-linux.org

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

[Arnulf Pelzer]

Moin Tobi and @ all,
I think this is a good solution for our project! I have support yoper
with money a long time, so that i have no problems to do this in
future again.
greets
Arnulf

2010/6/5 Tobias Gerschner <tobias.g...@gmail.com>:

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[Tobias Gerschner]

Hi Lance,

Thank you for taking the time to look at this. Please allow us some
time to go back to the drawing board to suss out the details.

As soon as that is done we'll get back to you.

Best Regards

[Tobias Gerschner]

2010/6/22 Lance Albertson via RT <sup...@osuosl.org>

On Sat Jun 05 01:53:59 2010, tobias.g...@gmail.com wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
>
> The team from Yoper Linux ( yoper-linux.org ) is looking for ways to
> improve its online presence. We have a dedicated server at Hetzner in
> Germany that I fully fund. It is our main work horse doing everything
> from websites , main mirror and build server for software packages.
>
> However we can not afford to take the rather expensive options for a
> reliable backup of databases etc. This has cost us dearly 2 months
> back in loosing all our websites due to a faulty hard drive which
> slowly corrupted our database backups. To prevent that from happening
> again we're looking for a small VM to host the websites
> www.yoper-linux.org, wiki.yoper-linux.org and forums.yoper-linux.org
> with currently about 50GB of storage space to also have nightly
> backups of the most important scripts / configuration that are part of
> the online framework of Yoper Linux.

We should be able to provide you a VM however 50GB is a bit too large
for our cluster. Is the space for the mirrors to sync from? If so, we
could have that part on our ftp cluster and save you a lot of space.

In general, we setup VMs starting at 512M RAM / 10G disk and go up to 2G
RAM / 30G. We have shared database servers for mysql and postgresql and
do not allow you to run those services locally on the VMs for that
reason.

A 512MB RAM / 10 GB disk VM should suffice if we were allowed to use between 20-40 GB of ftp space. The websites we'd move would be http://yoper-linux.org , http://wiki.yoper-linux.org , http://forums.yoper-linux.org, the software in use is word press, ipb and mediawiki, though. I've helped Arklinux with some sysadmin work every now and then and so I am somewhat familiar with the osuosl setup.

Please let me know whether you need any further information from our end.

Kind Regards

[Tobias Gerschner]

2010/7/8 Tobias Gerschner <tobias.g...@gmail.com>

Good Afternoon,


It's been quiet for a while. Does the offer from osuosl still stand? Do you need anything from our end to make things happen?