[gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo Infrastructure Hosting Sponsors needed - older sponsors going away

[Robin H. Johnson]

Hi all,
 
The world economic climate has not been kind to some of our Gentoo
sponsors, and we're going to be losing two major sponsors in the next
few months.
 
We wish to extend a huge thank-you to outgoing sponsors TMG (formerly
Hyves.nl), and Magic.FR (formerly SD-France/Euro-Web). If you need their
services, please take your business to them!
 
The infrastructure team included a notice in the last GMN [1], but since 
then we've learnt that we're losing another sponsor as well.
http://blogs.gentoo.org/news/2014/06/02/gentoo-monthly-newsletter-may-2014/#Infrastructure_News
 
Amongst the services hosted at the outgoing sponsors are:
- bugs.gentoo.org, our high-availability redundant bugzilla cluster
- wiki.gentoo.org
- cvs.gentoo.org/svn.gentoo.org/git.gentoo.org - our primary VCS repos
- overlays.gentoo.org - our overlay VCS repos
(if you have questions about these services, please hold them until you see my
followup emails).
 
Here's an updated version of the notice
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The Gentoo Infrastructure team (infra@g.o) is currently searching for
hosting sponsors in both Europe and North America. We ask that sponsors
contribute to Gentoo in one of several ways:
 
1. A donation of at least two dedicated servers including space, power
and 10Mbits of bandwidth (burstable to 50Mbit). This is the most common
option that organizations prefer. Sponsors typically have existing
dedicated space for their business and host hardware for Gentoo in that
space.
 
2. Donation of at least 8U space, 10A usable, and 10Mbits of bandwidth
(burstable to 50Mbits). The Gentoo Foundation will arrange the server hardware
(but not power, bandwidth, or rackspace / a rack.) 
 
3. A single dedicated server. Minimum specifications: 16GiB RAM, 70GB usable
storage (RAID1 required, Linux MD RAID is good, SSDs are nice to have but not
required).  2Mbit bandwidth commit, burst to 10Mbit.
 
4. Beefy virtual machines. Minimum specifications: 8GiB RAM, 20GB storage.
2Mbit bandwidth commit, burst to 10Mbit.
 
5. Something else. If you think you have something useful to offer the
Infrastructure team, please get in touch!
 
In the first three cases we prefer that the sponsor has remote hands for
the machines (for dead drives etc). KVM-over-IP, remote IPMI or other 
self-service remote management is also strongly desired.
 
Sponsors will received in return: ads on ads.gentoo.org (the ad sidebar to the
main site), postings on the sponsors page, as well as news items posted to
www.gentoo.org.
 
Interested parties should contact infra@g.o.

Generally, the Infrastructure team will install servers fresh from a rescue
environment, netboot environment or Gentoo LiveCD/DVD/USB media; as such
sponsors are not required to perform any software installation or maintenance.
 
Sponsors often ask to host official Gentoo mirrors. Note that the Gentoo
mirror network is not currently seeking new mirror sponsors at this
time - we have lots of mirrors!
 
The Gentoo infrastructure team has had significant operational problems with
virtual machines not mixing well with security-hardened kernels. We see this as
a significant preference for physical hardware rather than solutions like Xen
or VMWare, but we are willing to try out HVM/fully virtualized machines like
KVM as availability dictates.
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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead
E-Mail     : robbat2@g.o
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