On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Nick Bebout <nick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is everyone's thoughts about us sponsoring a Freenode server? Their > general requirements are noted on http://freenode.net/hosting_ircd.shtml > and I've discussed them with mmcgrath and he has said they seem doable, > probably on telia1 or osuosl1. Basically we'd be providing them a xen, > guest with about 1.5 or 2 GB ram, client servers should expect to sustain > around 1Mbps of traffic, with much higher peaks. Total usage for client > servers is usually around 320 gigabytes per month, while hidden hubs are > generally much lower overall. > > We'd be giving them at least a user account on it, they prefer sudo if > possible. They handle the day-to-day administering of the ircd, either > scp'ing new binaries or compiling the ircd on the server itself, and > copying new config files to there. > > I've talked to their sponsor liaison and they seem to be interested. Mike > and I wanted to discuss it on here before I send the actual "proposal" > email. > > I think it would be a good idea, especially since we use them so much for > our IRC channels, it'd be nice to contribute a server back to the network. Sorry but I'd put a -1 on this. There was a discussion/proposal (via Trac) from mdomsch there and I know I put some reasons down. Heres a few though: * Freenode already have an osuosl server iirc * Have we discussed this w/ our sponsors, they've been giving us space/bandwidth to do stuff that would benefit Fedora Project directly. * Freenode has had a lot of DDOS attacks recently, putting a sponsor under the potential for such strain is silly. I'd also say that the Board should have some say on this. -- Nigel Jones _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
