On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 07:24:27PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Alter Way (oVirt user and community member, French company) have generously offered to host some of our services as part of their efforts to support the project.
To give some background: The company is preparing a cloud offering based on oVirt nightlies running on Fedora. They are a hosting company (among other things) based in Paris, France.
We talked to them about our needs for Jenkins, and after getting reassurance on the bandwidth requirements for the Jenkins server, they have ade the following offer:
Alter Way will provide: - For Jenkins, 2 Bi Quad servers (with Jenkins running on bare metal) with 8 or 16 GB of RAM each and 2 fast 146 GB disks each, with RAID 10 for the 4 disks - For other services (Gerrit, Mailman, wiki, git): 1 or 2 VMs hosted on oVirt
In return, they would like: - Recognition of the hosting in the page footer of the hosted services - Recognition as a project sponsor on the project sponsors and supporters page - The also offer to have their cloud service serve as a case study for the oVirt project
I think that's up to the board to decide so no opinion here.
I did discuss with Stéphane Vincent, their representative, that we might want to host some services elsewhere - we have previously talked about hosting the website on OpenShift. I've asked him (and am waiting for clarification) on whether that might affect their offer.
I would like this cleared up. Suppose we get another hosting offer we still want the freedom to move some services.
In the meantime, I would like the opinions of the infra team - does this offer satisfy our needs and requirements for Jenkins? If that's the case, I would like to ask the board if they approve of the offer and the request to recognise Alter Way as a sponsor of the project?
I think that as long as it's better than our current EC2 we should do it. Let's look at the factors: - Price Looks like an easy win here. - Performance Hard to say without testing, but it would be very unexpected if a machine with the listed specs would perform less than EC2. - Availability Again hard to say without experience, but given they're a hosting company it would suprise me. All in all I'd welcome this offer.