Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139959FBB65 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:42:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 91809-10 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:42:21 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server227.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.227]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA6359FBB50 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:42:22 -0300 (ADT) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [63.195.55.98] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO [192.168.2.3]) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 12799561; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:46:35 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Organization: PostgreSQL @ Sun To: Peter Eisentraut Subject: Re: Location of PostgreSQL Performance Test Lab Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:43:18 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org References: <200707310919.10745.josh@agliodbs.com> <200707311830.52583.peter_e@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200707311830.52583.peter_e@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707310943.18476.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200707/83 X-Sequence-Number: 12230 Peter, > > In addition to the machine Gavin Roy is loaning, I'm putting together an > > online performance test lab for the commmunity using donated equipment. > > Fairly soon, however, I have to decide where it will be hosted. > > Why is it important that all the machines be hosted at one site? Administration and the ability to to do multi-machine configurations. Also the ability to swap storage to newer machines. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco