[Mageia-sysadm] rabbit sponsoring will soon end

[Pascal Terjan]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:55, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le samedi 11 février 2012 à 00:45 +0100, Michael Scherer a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> due to various issues and private reasons, it seems we may soon ( no ETA
>> for now ) need to pay for rabbit, the server used for building
>> distribution, as explained by Rapsys when we saw him in FOSDEM.
>
> Just to add what I forgot :
> http://www.online.net/serveur-dedie/offre-dedibox-professionnel-hp.xhtml
>
> this is what we have.
>
> And also, we can try to ask to $concurent to offer a server ( in our
> case, this would be ovh.com, they already sponsored the AUFMl
> ( mandrivafr.org ) with a free server )
>
> based on
>  https://www.ovh.com/fr/serveurs_dedies/
>
> the smallest one is the same as rabbit, so we could maybe just ask.

The good thing about such hosting is that we don't have to worry about
replacing a failing disk etc

Else, if we have a place were we can get racking space, I can buy a
second hand server like one of those:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Proliant-DL380-G4-Dual-Xeon-3-6Ghz-64-Bit-Server-8GB-/120716668472#ht_3859wt_1348
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-ProLiant-DL385-2-x-2-6GHZ-64-Bit-2U-Server-8GB-RAM-/140560732831
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-ProLiant-DL360-G4-Dual-Xeon-3-6Ghz-64-Bit-HT-8GB-RAM-300GB-RAID-1U-Server-/140604040744
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-2850-2U-Dual-Xeon-3-0Ghz-64-Bit-8GB-RAM-/140523155118

But given that they are not new there is a higher risk of failing disk