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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: hosting update: dns & existing rockbox.org email aliasesRe: hosting update: dns & existing rockbox.org email aliases
From: David Hooper via rockbox <rockbox_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 19:40:53 +0100 Out of interest, is there any capability in the current setup to load-balance across volunteer servers for hosting (rather than just CI) - if people have spare upstream capacity that is faster or less-flaky than what is currently confirmed as available? On Sun, 5 Sep 2021, 18:01 Solomon Peachy via rockbox, <rockbox_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 07:39:15PM +0200, Benjamin Balder Bach via rockbox > wrote: > > I just wanted to say that your work is SUPER acknowledged and this kind > of > > "reproductive work" shouldn't also be invisible work, so really > appreciate > > that you are sharing the steps involved and the beautiful details of the > > migration work! You are not the only one with such tasks at hand, so it's > > always nice to hear about how others solve it. > > Classic small-scale system administration, much like driving manual > transmissions, has become an increasingly lost skill as most everyone > has migrated to using third-party services. And, much like rockbox > itself, I want to help keep that dream alive. :) > > When I migrated and consolidated the existing stuff from the Haxx (and > other) servers onto mine, I cleaned up and documented everything > specific to the Rockox and left it in a much better integrated state, > but as my server was already (very) well established, I didn't need to > worry about setting up and documenting the pre-requisites. > > I'm working on setting up the VPS provided by Fosshost, documenting > everything that's needed to bring each component online rather than > taking advantage of an already-well-established > everything-and-the-kitchen-sink server. > > The nice thing is that once this is finished, everything rockbox [1] > will be truly self-contained and relatively portable to any hosting > provider, _and_ sufficiently documented that recreating everything from > scratch will be a considerably less perilous task for the relatively > inexperienced. > > [1] I intend to keep the lowest-level stuff (eg dns and email hosting) > on my servers so I don't have to duplicate the infrastructure. > > > If you can figure out a convenient way to share any future rack server > > bills, I'll be happy to chip in some annual dollars. Perhaps Patreon? > > There is a paypal donation link off the main page, but over the last > year or so we've probably averaged under $25/month in donations. > > Coincidentally, that's about what it costs for a commercial VPS capable > of meeting our basic needs, though that doesn't take into account the > compute and bandwidth donated by volunteers running our CI builders or > meta-infrastructure like dns, email, and 3rd-party authentication. > > In parallel to all of this I'm still trying to find a home for my server > with sufficient bandwidth to meet rockbox's >400GB/mo needs, but so far > my only confirmed options are $300-500/mo colocation, or slightly flaky > DSL with 5mbps upstream. > > And so it goes... > > - Solomon > -- > Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet dot org > (email&xmpp) > _at_pizza:shaftnet dot org (matrix) > High Springs, FL speachy (libra.chat) > -- > Unsubscribe: http://lists.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ > Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html > -- Unsubscribe: http://lists.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.htmlReceived on 2021-09-05 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |