[openspending-dev] The Front Fell Off

Fri Apr 11 15:57:47 UTC 2014

Can someone, please, give costs estimates for the actual infra-structure?

How can we measure if it's enough?

Tom

2014-04-11 12:54 GMT-03:00 Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org>:

> Hey Rufus,
>
> thanks for getting back to me.
>
> On 11 Apr 2014, at 17:10, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> I wonder if we should get a diagnosis of the issue that we have right now
> before doing a move (which is pretty cumbersome).
>
>
> I'm sorry for my rash proposal to move the machine, it would obviously be
> good to further diagnose the problem and to see what leads to the increased
> number of timeouts. At the same time, I'm not aware of any massive changes
> in the way that aggregation works, so it's reasonable to conclude that the
> issue is resulting from growing dataset numbers and the resources available.
>
> More substantively, we probably need to think of a plan medium-term for:
>
> A. Finding a way to have infrastructure donated or paid for
>
>
> Fully agreed, but it would be good if we could separate this from the
> immediate issue of request timeouts. Otherwise, OKFN ends up in a place
> where you're holding the users hostage in order to force them to contribute
> to an as-yet-unwritten agreement on cost sharing.
>
> B. Establishing a proper mini devops teams to oversee and maintain the
> services (it would be great to have enough folks here that we could have
> someone "on-duty" at a given time)
>
>
> I believe that's a function of A, since on-duty doesn't mean anything
> without some sort of payment.
>
> - Friedrich
>
>
> Especially for B people should shout out if they are interested in
> contributing.
>
> Rufus
>
>
> On 11 April 2014 12:34, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I got up this morning with three different people pinging me about OS not
>> working. It's quite apparent that - whatever merits the Amazon hosting
>> solution might have - it does not work in practice. To help with that, I
>> would like to offer my support in moving OS to a new dedicated machine
>> [e.g. 1] next week.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Friedrich
>>
>> [1] https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/px120
>>
>>
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