Subject: Re: [Gforge-admins] Re: PgFoundry Move
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: gforge-admins@pgfoundry.org
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:58:11 -0500
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Well, the problems with the current setup are well known, including:
- running on a machine that is sometimes rather loaded
- no separation of users / gforge , meaning we have had to restrict what
users / groups can do for security reasons
- unsupported (and in fact unknown) mailman version
- missing features like SVN support

JoshB and others have been working on a new box, that's true. But it's
been a very long time coming.

Joshua's offer is attractive because of the level of support promised. I
can certainly testify that when I screwed up the buildfarm badly, CP was
wonderfully responsive and we were back running with almost no data loss
within a couple of hours. Service like that is hard to beat.

cheers

andrew


On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 14:59 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Not sure where this email came from, but JoshB has gone to the trouble of 
> setting up a new server for pgFoundry, and when that is ready, it will be 
> moved there ...
> 
> Is there a problem that I haven't been informed of with the server it is 
> currently running on?
> 
> 
>   On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > In the essence of being efficient I would like to suggest that we move
> > Pgfoundry. I know we have been trying to "migrate" for what seems like
> > forever but maybe it is time we just up and move the whole site :).
> >
> > I would like to again offer Command Prompt's services in hosting
> > pgFoundry.
> >
> > Some key benefits to moving the system to CMD:
> >
> > 1. You can call us
> > 2. You can call us at 3:00 am
> > 3. We have service level monitoring
> > 4. We have a lot of bandwidth
> > 5. All our stuff is on natural gas conditioned power generators
> >
> > We have proven to be very stable with the Buildfarm and with the archives.
> > With the only recent problem with either not being at the hands of CMD,
> > (gentle poke at Andrew).
> >
> > The longest outage we have had in the last 24 months is four hours for a 
> > single
> > machine that we had to recover from backup.
> >
> > The longest outage we have had that was global in the last 24 months (that 
> > wasn't
> > scheduled) was 90 minutes when we lost a nic in one of our firewalls.
> >
> > We did recently have a scheduled outage of 4.5 hours but that was from 
> > midnight
> > to 4:30 while we upgraded some power facilities.
> >
> > The only change that we would require would be to move the system to Linux.
> > This should be a very minor change in general and will probably require
> > very if any work on the Gforge end.
> >
> > Thoughts, Flames, better suggestions?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Joshua D. Drake
> >
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