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Hello all, |
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I'm a director at Bytemark, a Linux hosting company who offer low-cost |
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User-mode Linux hosts, like co-location only cheaper (15ukp or $25ish per |
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month). Currently we offer Debian and another popular commercial distro and |
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I'm keen to offer Gentoo as an option, because a few people are interested |
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in "rolling their own" and Gentoo seems like the most sensible option from |
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this point of view. Plus my instinct is that Gentoo has recently but firmly |
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taken the "no. 3" spot in popularity after Debian & Redhat (or is SuSE that |
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popular with enthusiasts, despite the price...? Just a guess really, flame |
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ye not!). |
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So I've been preparing a Gentoo "base system" to get ready to offer to our |
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customers and wondered if I could enlist a bit of help: in return we'd like |
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to donate two 64MB Virtual Machines to Gentoo development and we can probaby |
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be a bit more generous with disc space and bandwidth than our advertised |
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3GB/7.5GB deal if the need arises. We'd like the people using the machines |
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to be active Gentoo developers, and to give us a bit of feedback on how |
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we're managing the systems, as well as giving us a heads-up on any new |
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Gentoo developments that might be relevant to our base system. The way we |
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do this with Debian is to periodically evaluate a "fresh" system as produced |
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by our setup process and check that it's still relevant, relatively bug-free |
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and unsurprising to Debian users (that's us, mostly). So we'd like it if |
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the people using the Gentoo machines would help us in the same way, just |
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take a look every couple of months to check we've not made any mistakes. |
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If there's a conesensus on who'd be best to manage these machines, or decide |
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what to do with them, I'll go with that, otherwise I guess let me know if |
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you're a developer, and you need hosting for a particular Gentoo-related |
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project, and we'll try to decide fairly. |
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I'm just finishing off a "first draft" of the Gentoo base system and hope |
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that I can get a couple of developers set up and using them within a few |
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days. Let me know privately if you'd like to use them, or have some |
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authoratitive claim within the project to better allocate the hosting on |
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offer :) Otherwise, any public suggestions on how to manage such a hosted |
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Gentoo service will be welcome (or suggestions as to where better put this |
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discussion <g>). |
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Thanks! |
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Matthew Bloch Bytemark Hosting |
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tel. +44 (0) 8707 455026 |
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http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/ |
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Dedicated Linux hosts from 15ukp ($26) per month |
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