[clue-talk] VPS renewal challenged by ZNZ

[Crawford Rainwater]

----- YES NOPE9  wrote: -----
> > On Dec 23, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> > ----- YES NOPE9  wrote: -----
> >> Now that there are emerging alternatives to renewing VPS for 12
> >> months
> >> ......
> >> I feel sure that VPS will be quickly renewed for 12 months....
> >>
> >> I am asking the question ; whether VPS can be renewed for 1 month
> >> or 3
> >> months......
> >> Or just chuck VPS and go with my simple email and website proposal
> >> .....
> >> Which can be replaced by Drupal at any moment. ( Cost in dollars
> >> ....
> >> znz [zero-nada-zilch] )
> >
> 
> Questions then on this proposal:
> - Where is this server physically located? In the ixwebhosting cloud
> http://www.ixwebhosting.com/
> - What is the power setup? ixwebhosting takes care of that
> - What is the bandwidth setup? More than CLUE will ever use
> - What is the disaster recovery setup? backup the CLUE website (
> offsite from ixwebhosting )
> - What is the actual uptime percentage? Don't know but I have had no
> complaints
> - Will this be a separate container server or shared system with
> others? No it is not a VPS
> - What type of physical and remote access is there to this server?
> Remote access for anyone who wants it no physical access
> - What is the physical makeup of this server? Don't know .. don't care
> 
> What are the answers to the above questions for the existing ( 2010 )
> hosting ?

Answers are in the respective question order as follows: 

VPSlink is located in Boston, MA now (from Seattle, WA with Spry before they were sold off).
VPSLink takes care of the power.  
BW is under a VPSLink-3 account for the details which CLUE has yet to surpass.
Jed is currently doing rsync's of things nightly via a set of cron jobs.
Minus maintenance, pretty high up.
This is a VPS container under Xen.
Remote access as we open ports with admin console access as well.  No physical access.
Paravirtualization level hardware last I checked and still potentially the case.

> >
> >> So I am betting that VPS will quickly be renewed and many entities
> >> will hope that
> >> the alternatives will fade away ...... I invite anyone who feels
> >> burned out to
> >> pass the torch or drop the torch on the ground and let someone else
> >> pick it up.
> >> I am betting that no torch relinquishing will occur. This means it
> >> must still
> >> be fun to hang on to the torch.
> >>
> >
> > Well I am personally not burnt out being one of the CLUE server
> > admins. I just rather not see things regress to relying on donated
> > hardware that may or may not work for a few months later on a
> > patched up system that is being "garage hosted" with no guarantee of
> > stability.
> 
> Neither Crawford or Jed Baer appear to be burned out. They do want to
> spend $210 of CLUE money versus ZNZ. Crawford and Jed appear to care
> very much about how CLUE hosting is implemented. Will Crawford and Jed
> commit to another year ( 2011 ) of being responsible ?

The decision is to go with a 6-month renewal of VPSLink (from 01 January 2011 to 30 June 2011) at this time.  I will still be one of the server admins as well along with David A. and Jed since there is discussion on re-vamping the CLUE web site a bit.

HTH.

--- Crawford

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