Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:59:29 -0400 (AST)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
cc: gforge-admins@pgfoundry.org, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PgFoundry Move
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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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